David Carless
@carlessdavid.bsky.social
Professor of Feedback Literacy, University of Hong Kong
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Pleased to share the newest Cambridge Element in the series I edit — How to Use Generative AI in Educational Research by J. Roe.
A clear, critical, and timely guide for anyone exploring how GenAI is reshaping educational research.
FREE ACCESS for two weeks:
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/9781...
A clear, critical, and timely guide for anyone exploring how GenAI is reshaping educational research.
FREE ACCESS for two weeks:
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/9781...
How to Use Generative AI in Educational Research
Cambridge Core - Education policy, strategy and reform - How to Use Generative AI in Educational Research
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October 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Pleased to share the newest Cambridge Element in the series I edit — How to Use Generative AI in Educational Research by J. Roe.
A clear, critical, and timely guide for anyone exploring how GenAI is reshaping educational research.
FREE ACCESS for two weeks:
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/9781...
A clear, critical, and timely guide for anyone exploring how GenAI is reshaping educational research.
FREE ACCESS for two weeks:
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/9781...
An interesting take on the wicked problem of GenAI-Assessment, I wonder what others think ...
NEW on Wonkhe: Rather than an assessment arms race, Duna Sabri calls for a response to artificial intelligence grounded in subject knowledge buff.ly/vC2lv8Z
September 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
An interesting take on the wicked problem of GenAI-Assessment, I wonder what others think ...
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“Reframing Teacher Wellbeing: Policy, Leadership, and Localized Insight through Asia as Method”
Wellbeing isn't just personal, it’s shaped by policy, leadership, and culture. My new paper offers a framework grounded in Hong Kong’s context and Asia as Method.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Wellbeing isn't just personal, it’s shaped by policy, leadership, and culture. My new paper offers a framework grounded in Hong Kong’s context and Asia as Method.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
“Reframing Teacher Wellbeing: Policy, Leadership, and Localized Insight through Asia as Method”
Wellbeing isn't just personal, it’s shaped by policy, leadership, and culture. My new paper offers a framework grounded in Hong Kong’s context and Asia as Method.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Wellbeing isn't just personal, it’s shaped by policy, leadership, and culture. My new paper offers a framework grounded in Hong Kong’s context and Asia as Method.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Academic feedback literacy: what HE professionals need to generate and make the most of feedback opportunities
Interesting read by @carlessdavid.bsky.social (2025) Feedback Literacy Concepts and Practices: Toward Academic Feedback Literacy, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 57:5, 5-11, DOI: 10.1080/00091383.2025.2539038
September 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Academic feedback literacy: what HE professionals need to generate and make the most of feedback opportunities
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‘The virtues of not knowing’: how ‘unknowingness’ in pedagogical partnership prepares student partners to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change in pursuit of equity
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‘The virtues of not knowing’: how ‘unknowingness’ in pedagogical partnership prepares student partners to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change in pursuit of equity
We live in a time of complexity, uncertainty, and change that can exacerbate inequities. Student–faculty pedagogical partnership that embraces ‘unknowingness’ can prepare student partners both to n...
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June 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM
‘The virtues of not knowing’: how ‘unknowingness’ in pedagogical partnership prepares student partners to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change in pursuit of equity
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Yeah, feedback literacy to inform academic peer review 😀
This week on Wonkhe: The lessons of decades of research into assessment and feedback haven’t tracked across into the practice of peer review. Madeleine Pownall wonders why not
Peer review is broken, and pedagogical research has a fix
The lessons of decades of research into assessment and feedback haven’t tracked across into the practice of peer review. Madeleine Pownall wonders why not The lessons of decades of research into assessment...
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August 6, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Yeah, feedback literacy to inform academic peer review 😀
A social constructivist perspective on the development of student feedback literacy over a 4-year period. Free eprints
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Towards an idealized model of feedback uptake: longitudinal development of feedback literacy from a social constructivist perspective
One of the potentials and challenges for the implementation of effective feedback processes lies in promoting and enacting purposeful student uptake of teacher written feedback. The theoretical fra...
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August 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
A social constructivist perspective on the development of student feedback literacy over a 4-year period. Free eprints
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BARHM...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BARHM...
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New @hepi-news.bsky.social blog on how higher education should respond to calls to be relevant: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/06/16/h...
How should higher education respond to calls to be relevant? - HEPI
Higher education’s true value lies not in skills or facts, but in transformative access to structured bodies of knowledge.
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June 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
New @hepi-news.bsky.social blog on how higher education should respond to calls to be relevant: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/06/16/h...
Work towards three things from a presentation that audience members can recall one week later
Citation:
Bourne PE. Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations. PLOS Computational Biology. 2007;3(4): e77.
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Bourne PE. Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations. PLOS Computational Biology. 2007;3(4): e77.
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June 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Work towards three things from a presentation that audience members can recall one week later
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Appraising Feedback Stance in Higher Education: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Student and Academic Perceptions, Perspectives and Preferences link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41701-025-00196-3
Appraising Feedback Stance in Higher Education: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Student and Academic Perceptions, Perspectives and Preferences - Corpus Pragmatics
Feedback is a complex dialogic, sociomaterial practice that is shaped by digital affordances, institutional norms and various contextual factors. Even though it is widely recognised as crucial to acad...
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June 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Appraising Feedback Stance in Higher Education: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Student and Academic Perceptions, Perspectives and Preferences link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41701-025-00196-3
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Huge Congrats to Tammy for her paper at AEHE! Struggling with effective math assessments? Her research highlights key gaps—like balancing culture, tech, and student reflection. Let’s rethink assessment together! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Assessment purposes and theoretical foundations in university mathematics assessment practices: a comprehensive scoping review
This scoping review addresses the limited scopes of current research on classroom assessment in university mathematics education (UME). We examine 67 empirical studies (2012–2024) from two crucial ...
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May 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Huge Congrats to Tammy for her paper at AEHE! Struggling with effective math assessments? Her research highlights key gaps—like balancing culture, tech, and student reflection. Let’s rethink assessment together! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Our research has been published in AEHE!📚It explores how different types of motivation influence student perceptions and behaviours in feedback seeking processes. Huge thanks for the guidance and support from @juusonieminen.bsky.social and Prof Gaowei Chen
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May 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Our research has been published in AEHE!📚It explores how different types of motivation influence student perceptions and behaviours in feedback seeking processes. Huge thanks for the guidance and support from @juusonieminen.bsky.social and Prof Gaowei Chen
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Discover how student influencers are reshaping peer support in #HigherEducation through #studytalk! Our latest blog post by @rilleraaper.bsky.social discusses the role of student influencers in marketised higher education. Check it out now! 📚 #StudentInfluencers
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#Studytalk and Student Influencers: The Role of Social Media in Student Support
Rille Raaper, Durham University Contemporary student experiences of higher education are mediated by technology where intersections between in-person and digital experiences continue to evolve in new ...
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May 20, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Discover how student influencers are reshaping peer support in #HigherEducation through #studytalk! Our latest blog post by @rilleraaper.bsky.social discusses the role of student influencers in marketised higher education. Check it out now! 📚 #StudentInfluencers
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Balance GenAI's speed & power with human judgement & empathy: Hybrid intelligent feedback www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Pedagogical framework for hybrid intelligent feedback
Generative AI (GenAI) has gained attention as a new feedback source in education because it can generate human-like text. However, its use in feedback lacks a strong pedagogical framework, which is...
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May 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Balance GenAI's speed & power with human judgement & empathy: Hybrid intelligent feedback www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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My new baby. I do hope you find it engaging and of value…
February 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My new baby. I do hope you find it engaging and of value…
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'Student influencers fill gaps in university support services' - A thought piece published with @uniworldnews.bsky.social Thanks #SRHE conference for opportunity to reflect on these themes.
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Student influencers fill gaps in university support services
Student influencers, an emerging group of students on social media, are increasingly exploiting the gaps in higher education systems and are offering ...
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January 17, 2025 at 7:41 AM
'Student influencers fill gaps in university support services' - A thought piece published with @uniworldnews.bsky.social Thanks #SRHE conference for opportunity to reflect on these themes.
www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
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Debate and role-play as interactive oral assessment: some tentative thoughts
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Creative Assessment Design in the Time of GenAI
Zheng Wenxin and David CarlessI am Zheng Wenxin, a second-year HKU student participating in the Eureka Undergraduate Research Programme, conducting a research project with Professor David Carless. Our...
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April 25, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Debate and role-play as interactive oral assessment: some tentative thoughts
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Discover the secrets behind Finland's educational success in PISA with @doctorchungie.bsky.social's latest blog post!🌟 From historical roots to political consensus, learn how Finland's unique culture shapes its top-ranking system.💡 #education #Finland #PISA
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Socio-Cultural Reasons for Finland’s High Outcomes in PISA
Jennifer Chung, UCL Institute of Education For more than twenty years, Finland and its education system have captured attention and admiration worldwide. The country’s high outcomes in the Programme f...
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April 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Discover the secrets behind Finland's educational success in PISA with @doctorchungie.bsky.social's latest blog post!🌟 From historical roots to political consensus, learn how Finland's unique culture shapes its top-ranking system.💡 #education #Finland #PISA
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Great new paper on authentic assessment in engineering from my colleagues at @leedsteaching.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A holistic consideration of authentic assessments: student perception of assessment design, delivery, flexibility and creativity
Although ‘authentic assessment’ is widely used in higher education, its interpretation is often limited to an assessment task's technical relevance. This paper explores a more holistic conceptualis...
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April 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Great new paper on authentic assessment in engineering from my colleagues at @leedsteaching.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A collective article with Alexander Sidorkin, Petar Jandric, Eamon Costello, Jessica Heybach, Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, KaThy Hytten, Lesley Gorlay, Rachel Anne, and Marek Tesar. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The voice of artificial intelligence: Philosophical and educational reflections
Published in Educational Philosophy and Theory (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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April 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
A collective article with Alexander Sidorkin, Petar Jandric, Eamon Costello, Jessica Heybach, Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, KaThy Hytten, Lesley Gorlay, Rachel Anne, and Marek Tesar. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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It’s been a long hard task, but today @philrace.bsky.social received in the post hardback copies of the sixth edition of the lecturers tool kit. Definitely our last Book! Paperbacks will be launched on the 16th of April
March 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It’s been a long hard task, but today @philrace.bsky.social received in the post hardback copies of the sixth edition of the lecturers tool kit. Definitely our last Book! Paperbacks will be launched on the 16th of April
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March 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Welcoming applications for a Professoriate position in Higher Education Pedagogy
I think 'mini-vivas' can be used to tackle student over-reliance on GenAI, and I also used them to monitor or minimize free-riding web.edu.hku.hk/f/staff/412/...
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March 26, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I think 'mini-vivas' can be used to tackle student over-reliance on GenAI, and I also used them to monitor or minimize free-riding web.edu.hku.hk/f/staff/412/...
Impressive analysis of the potentials & challenges in supporting students to learn from exam performance
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Approaches to feedback on examination performance: research, policy, and practice
Examinations are viewed as one of the least inclusive forms of assessment. Attainment gaps between different student groups (e.g. based on ethnicity) are more pronounced in examinations than in cou...
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March 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Impressive analysis of the potentials & challenges in supporting students to learn from exam performance
doi.org/10.1080/0260...
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Feedback literacy meets dialogue: Interesting and high quality article doi.org/10.1080/0260...
Dialogism in feedback literacies: a critical review
This critical review examines the evolving conceptualization of dialogue in feedback literacies within higher education, presenting a nuanced theoretical framework that challenges traditional under...
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March 14, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Feedback literacy meets dialogue: Interesting and high quality article doi.org/10.1080/0260...