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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 1d

New Special Issue: Getting Critical About Critique in Higher Education 🚨

The SI rethinks the meaning and practices of ‘criticality’, foregrounds diverse perspectives (Confucianism, Arabic-Islamic philosophy...), and opens new pathways for global scholarship

www.tandfonline.com/toc/cthe20/3...

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge. The cover also states the name of the Special Issue (Getting Critical About Critique in Higher Education) and the Guest Editors (Kathy Luckett, Ibrar Bhatt and Alison MacKenzie)

List of contents (please see the link for the full list of articles in the Special Issue)

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Juuso Henrik Nieminen @juusonieminen.bsky.social · 1d

Inclusive assessment design: students with disabilities speak out

My new study has been published in @herdjournal.bsky.social! What do 139 students have to say about how assessment could be made more inclusive?

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Inclusive assessment design: students with disabilities speak out

Research knows a great deal about how assessment could be ‘more inclusive’, but what do students have to say about inclusive assessment design? This study considers the voices of students with disa...

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Juuso Henrik Nieminen @juusonieminen.bsky.social · 3d

How should academic journals navigate these turbulent times in social media? Some musings by myself in the @teachinginhe.bsky.social blog - see below!

Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 3d

"After careful consideration, we have extended our social media presence from X to BlueSky and LinkedIn. For now, we have decided to keep posting new material on X"

New blog post from our Assistant Editor about our approach to social media:

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Higher education journals and social media in turbulent times

After careful consideration, Teaching in Higher Education has extended its social media presence from X to BlueSky and LinkedIn. For now, we have decided to keep posting new material on our X page.…

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CRADLE: Assessment. Digital. Learning @cradledeakin.bsky.social · 23d

Congratulations to @juusonieminen.bsky.social on being awarded the prestigious Erik De Corte award at #EARLI2025! The award recognises an early career researcher who demonstrates exceptional promise in the field of Learning and Instruction. Well done Juuso!

blogs.deakin.edu.au/cradle/juuso...

Professor Erik De Corte, Professor Lucia Mason (EARLI President) and Dr Juuso Nieminen

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Vikki Hill @vikkihill.bsky.social · Aug 2

Compassionate Assessment Practice Sharing Symposium, 11 September 2025

We are pleased to announce that the Compassionate Assessment Network is hosting an online symposium. We warmly invite educators, researchers, policymakers and administrators to join us. Call out for submission details here:

Compassionate Assessment Practice Sharing Symposium, 11 September 2025 | Vikki Hill

Compassionate Assessment Practice Sharing Symposium, 11 September 2025 We are pleased to announce that the Compassionate Assessment Network is hosting an online symposium on 11 September 2025. We war...

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Juuso Henrik Nieminen @juusonieminen.bsky.social · May 28

How has scholarly research produced knowledge about self-assessment – and the 'selves' of self-assessment, students? Years in the making, our meta-review and discourse analysis of student self-assessment research with David Boud has been published www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Student self-assessment: a meta-review of five decades of research

Student self-assessment has received considerable research interest. While several review articles have mapped self-assessment studies, there remains a need to synthesise the insights from field an...

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · May 28

New blog post by Sam Illingworth! 🚨

"If we want to improve retention, we need to support our educators – by fostering a culture where learning is shared, creativity is valued, and development feels both personal and powerful"

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Drawing retention: what storyboards taught us about staff development and student success

This project began with a deceptively simple question: how can we, as educators and learning professionals, better support student retention? At Edinburgh Napier University, like many institutions,…

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Ararat Plain Southeast Archaeological Project (APSAP) @apsap.bsky.social · May 21

Our Open Access article with Juuso Nieminen of Deakin University is assigned a volume in Teaching in Higher Education🎉It explores how authentic assessment can foster students’ #epistemic #agency, based on a qualitative case study of a digitally-mediated #archaeology course. doi.org/10.1080/1356...

Screencap of our article in Teaching in Higher Education and the cover of Teaching in Higher Education

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Juuso Henrik Nieminen @juusonieminen.bsky.social · May 20

Why do students seek feedback – or choose not to? Our newly published study explores the motivational rationales for students' feedback seeking processes. Huge congratulations to the hugely talented @belindazhouhl.bsky.social on her first publication! 🥳 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · May 19

New publication alert! 🚨

Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors

By Gene Flenady and Robert Sparrow

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEducation #GenAI

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors by Gene Flenady and Robert Sparrow. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · May 13

🚨 New blog post by Claire Timperley and Kate Schick!

"Creative assessments can expand students’ and teachers’ understanding of what education can be – not just an instrumental expression of what students have learned in exchange for a grade"

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Subverting authentic assessment: inviting relationality, vulnerability and wonder through creative projects

At the beginning of our academic careers we taught as we were taught, and assessed as we were assessed. But as we gained confidence in our roles, we increasingly noticed dissonance between what we …

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Jeremy Moulton @jeremymoulton.bsky.social · Feb 25

Thrilled to see my new article in @pspolisci.bsky.social, published open access on first view today: ‘Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education?’

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Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education? | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core

Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education?

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · Apr 24

New publication alert! 🚨

Towards transformatory critique: reframing curriculum for student focus

By Cameron Graham

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEducation #Criticality

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Towards transformatory critique: reframing curriculum for student focus by Cameron Graham. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

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Juuso Henrik Nieminen @juusonieminen.bsky.social · Apr 23

How could students be seen as meaningful partners in assessment design, and what do we know about the impact of such partnership practices? Our new review paper with @molliedollin.bsky.social and Tracy Zou is out in Review of Education! bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Review of Education | BERA Educational Research Journal | Wiley Online Library

Students' active role is heavily emphasised in contemporary assessment research, policies and practices. Even then, students remain the objects of assessment in an era defined by accountability measu....

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Juuso Henrik Nieminen @juusonieminen.bsky.social · Mar 25

The new TiHE Special Issue on #AuthenticAssesment is out!

David Boud and I contributed to the SI with a paper on self-assessment. What could self-assessment desing learn from authenticity? Read our thoughts on how (in)authenticity could be understood in SA:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · Mar 17

We're delighted to announce that the winner of our Editors' Choice Award for 2025 is Jiahui Luo (Jess) for the article entitled:

How does GenAI affect trust in teacher-student relationships? Insights from students’ assessment experiences

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#GenAI #AIinEducation

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspecitives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge. Next to the cover reads a text: Editor's Choice Award 2025, Winner!

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Higher Education Research and Development @herdjournal.bsky.social · Mar 4

Please share - call for papers

#MeToo and Higher Education

Special Issue Editors: Professor Denise Cuthbert & Associate Professor Ceridwen Spark

Manuscript deadline: 25 April 2025

More information: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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Juuso Henrik Nieminen @juusonieminen.bsky.social · Mar 4

How do disabled pre-service teachers narrate their identities? Our new paper, led by the incredibly talented Hin Ki Cheung, is published in Disability & Society! We discuss how teacher ed programs narrow down potential and desirable ways of being 'a good teacher' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘I’m a cracked vase’: identity narratives of disabled pre-service teachers

This study explores the identity narratives of three disabled pre-service teachers in Hong Kong. Drawing on narrative inquiry, we ask: how do the students’ teacher and disability identities interse...

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Transforming Assessment @transformassess.bsky.social · Feb 26

Next ASCILITE Transforming Assessment SIG webinar 5 March 2025 "Interactive Oral Assessments in first-year" [7AM UK | 3PM SG/HK | 6PM SYD/MEL | 8PM NZ]. More info, timezone conversion and reg: taw.fi/5mar2025

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Juuso Henrik Nieminen @juusonieminen.bsky.social · Feb 20

Self-assessment is increasingly digital, but has digital self-assessment design kept pace with the digital world? In our new paper with Zi Yan and David Boud, we explore how self-assessment could be more relevant for students' increasingly digital futures ⚡💽 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Self-assessment design in a digital world: centring student agency

Digital technologies allow student self-assessment to be adaptive, scalable and multimodal. Despite such technological advances, digital self-assessment practices have largely reinforced the existi...

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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · Feb 6

Changing institutions as an #academic means adapting to a new system, and relearning/remapping organisational dynamics and your role in them. It's hard work. Now, changing institutions internationally is a whole different beast with #language and #culture entering the chat. Year 2 and still learning

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Laura Ketonen @lauraketonen.bsky.social · Feb 5

Uusi tutkimus julkaistu!
Tutkimme @juusonieminen.bsky.social kanssa opettajien toimijuutta päättöarvioinnissa. Tunnistimme viisi toimijuustyyppiä: Innostunut, Tyytyväinen toteuttaja, Kuuliainen kriitikko, Immuuni ja Kapinallinen.
Lue lisää 👇
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Professional autonomy vs. assessment criteria: teacher agency in the midst of assessment reform

In Finland, there are no high-stakes tests in comprehensive education, but teachers assign students’ final grades. A recent reform introduced a set of assessment criteria to make grades more compar...

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Juuso Henrik Nieminen @juusonieminen.bsky.social · Feb 5

Our new paper out in Journal of Curriculum Studies! ✨

How do teachers enact their agency during an assessment reform? Based on interviews with 66 Finnish teachers, we analysed different forms of teacher agency in assessment.

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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Professional autonomy vs. assessment criteria: teacher agency in the midst of assessment reform

In Finland, there are no high-stakes tests in comprehensive education, but teachers assign students’ final grades. A recent reform introduced a set of assessment criteria to make grades more compar...

www.tandfonline.com

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Juuso Henrik Nieminen @juusonieminen.bsky.social · Jan 30

Oh this looks awesome - thanks for hinting @blackl19.bsky.social!

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Michael Holden @mikeholden.bsky.social · Jan 26

#Manitoba teachers, interested in inclusive #assessment? Join us for a conversation on February 5 featuring the fantastic Dionne Potapinski & Jamie Galbraith: tinyurl.com/IEPRT2025

An event poster for a Conversation on inclusive classroom assessment in Manitoba, hosted by the Inclusive Education Professors Round Table (IEPRT). The poster reads:

Step into the conversation: Key topics to explore
What does assessment mean/look like to you?
What is the difference between assessment and grading?
Core argument of inclusive assessment
‘Fireside chat’ based on attendees’ burning questions
Open forum for discussion and questions

Date: February 5, 2025
Time: 5:00-6:00pm
Platform: Zoom
Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/9NhxDPCNNW

The poster is black and light red, with a QR code to the registration URL at the bottom of the page.

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