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David Carless

@carlessdavid.bsky.social
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Professor of Feedback Literacy, University of Hong Kong

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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
An aspiration for feedback environments where generating and using feedback productively becomes a sustained habit www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AIJUS...
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From feedback literacy to feedback fluency: building habits and automaticity in generating and using feedback
This conceptual paper introduces feedback fluency as a novel way of thinking about the long-term development of student feedback literacy. Feedback fluency is defined as habits and automaticity in ...
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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We inadvertently created a culture where admitting AI use feels risky
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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Neat 6-minute presentation by Roger Kan of HKU SPACE
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HKU SCAPE @hkuscape.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🚀Excited to share our new blog by Cindy Chen & Professor David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social : When GenAI Meets Teacher Feedback Dilemmas. 🎓✨ Discover how educators are redefining feedback with GenAI! #GenAI #Feedback #HigherEd scape.edu.hku.hk/when-genai-m...
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When GenAI Meets Teacher Feedback Dilemmas
Shijun (Cindy) Chen and David Carless, Faculty of Education, University of Hong KongWe are living in a complex and fast-changing world, shaped by technology, policies, and global developments. We have...
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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"The single most important structural feature is whether a future accountability moment exists at which students will need to demonstrate understanding."
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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Educational development as both scholarship and impact on practice: useful contribution by Claire Gordon & Sam Smidt
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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Yes, feedback seeking as an aspect of learner feedback literacy
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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Well-argued analysis of both the power of AI, and what humans can offer in terms of augmented cognition
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Andréia Vargas-Seymour (she/her) @a-vargas-seymour.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
'I’m beginning to develop a firm conviction that teachers in higher education need to model and demonstrate to students how they themselves as academic professionals generate and use feedback information of different kinds.' Couldn't agree more!
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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Feedback seeking is a high leverage strategy & worth modelling for learners: short blog post scape.edu.hku.hk/feedback-see...
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Feedback Seeking for Academics and Students
David Carless, University of Hong KongLast week, I did an online talk for a group of colleagues at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University about one my favorite topics: feedback seeking. I drew links betw...
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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
A perspective on the current state-of-the-art of feedback literacy research: Mark Teng, editor of IJTS asked me to introduce feedback literacy to his readers, & its open access www.tesolunion.org/journal/deta...
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Articles - TESOLUNION.ORG
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Leigh Graves Wolf @gravesle.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Delighted to share our latest article on the @ucddublin.bsky.social Assessment for Inclusion Framework published in @teachinginhe.bsky.social with my colleagues @geraldineoneill.bsky.social & @sheenahyland.bsky.social (featuring artwork from @visualthinkery.bsky.social!) doi.org/10.1080/1356...
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Assessment for inclusion: a holistic framework to support stakeholders’ literacy and implementation across contexts
Higher education is experiencing a significant drive towards more inclusive learning to support student success. Assessment, however, can often be a barrier to achieving that success. The literatur...
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Sal Consoli @salconsoli.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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...
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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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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
An interesting take on the wicked problem of GenAI-Assessment, I wonder what others think ...
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Paul Campbell @pcampbell91.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
“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....
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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Academic feedback literacy: what HE professionals need to generate and make the most of feedback opportunities
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Higher Education Research and Development @herdjournal.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
‘The virtues of not knowing’: how ‘unknowingness’ in pedagogical partnership prepares student partners to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change in pursuit of equity www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Yeah, feedback literacy to inform academic peer review 😀
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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
A social constructivist perspective on the development of student feedback literacy over a 4-year period. Free eprints www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BARHM...
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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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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Esterhazy wrote about feedback encounters www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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What matters for productive feedback? Disciplinary practices and their relational dynamics
Most research on feedback has paid limited attention to the role of disciplines and their relational dynamics. This article addresses this limitation by offering a conceptualisation of feedback as ...
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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
It was Gravett & Carless, Feedback literacy as event www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Feedback literacy-as-event: relationality, space and temporality in feedback encounters
Research on student and teacher feedback literacies is currently a flourishing sub-field of higher education, as scholars seek to address the durable and dissatisfying dilemmas that feedback proces...
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Paul Ashwin @paulashwin.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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...
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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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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Work towards three things from a presentation that audience members can recall one week later
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Bas Trimbos @bastrimbos.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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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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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Belinda Hui-Ling Zhou @belindazhouhl.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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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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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Belinda Hui-Ling Zhou @belindazhouhl.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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....
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HKU SCAPE @hkuscape.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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 scape.edu.hku.hk/studytalk-an...
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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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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Balance GenAI's speed & power with human judgement & empathy: Hybrid intelligent feedback www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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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Rupert Wegerif @rupertwegerif.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
My new baby. I do hope you find it engaging and of value…
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Rille Raaper @rilleraaper.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
'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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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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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Debate and role-play as interactive oral assessment: some tentative thoughts scape.edu.hku.hk/creative-ass...
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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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HKU SCAPE @hkuscape.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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 scape.edu.hku.hk/socio-cultur...
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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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Prof. Pam Birtill @diervilla.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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 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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Liz Jackson @proflizjackson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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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The voice of artificial intelligence: Philosophical and educational reflections
Published in Educational Philosophy and Theory (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Sally Brown @profsallybrown.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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
A hardcover copy of the sixth edition of the lecturer’s tool kit by 
 Phil Race and Sally Brown
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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Welcoming applications for a Professoriate position in Higher Education Pedagogy
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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Impressive analysis of the potentials & challenges in supporting students to learn from exam performance doi.org/10.1080/0260...
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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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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Feedback literacy meets dialogue: Interesting and high quality article doi.org/10.1080/0260...
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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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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We have ruined essay writing by forgetting about it as a process and treating it as a product. It's time to rethink writing (and how we teach it) and, ironically, the challenge of AI can help, writes Alicja Syska blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
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We tried to kill the essay – now let's resurrect it | LSE Higher Education
Writing teaches us how to think, so let's rethink, reframe, and reposition the essay to bring it back into the light, writes Alicja Syska
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Jisc @jisc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
First keynote of #Digifest25 is from Paul Iske, CFO (chief failure officer) at the Institute of Brilliant Failures. He suggests reframing fail to mean 'first attempt in learning'. An inspiring and amusing start to the day!
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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A small reminder that there is more to literatures work than reviewing patthomson.net/2025/03/03/l...
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literatures – look for blind spots
One of the problems with literatures work is that you deal with what’s published. And once you’ve accumulated what’s out there, you use them. You might find a definition or categories drawn from th…
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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I think effective, concise communication is at a premium, so I tend to request 5-7 minute podcasts and similar timing for oral presentations F2F. Less can be more. #LTHEchat
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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I value oral communication so in my Ed D course, students either present their research in class OR submit a 6-minute podcast. I also run a podcast/blog, submissions welcome #LTHEchat scape.edu.hku.hk/category/pod...
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Podcasts – Social Contexts and Policies of Education
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David Carless @carlessdavid.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Giving is better than taking, as Adam Grant cogently argues
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ithinkwellhugh.bsky.social @ithinkwellhugh.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
You have a better chance of getting useful feedback if you ask specific questions. What kind of feedback do you want? A quick read for structure? Or do you want detailed comments? Is the argument OK? Highlight a paragraph or a page you want to discuss. #acwri
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Karen Gravett @kgravett.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
My new book is here! In this book I draw upon my research with students and educators to examine how we might find meaningful ways to be critical in contemporary times. The book considers some ways we might enact a relational critical practice
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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Productivity is overrated. What counts most is the quality of output, not the quantity. People may be impressed by the volume you produce, but impact depends on the value you create. Success is not about getting more things done. It's about doing more worthwhile things well.
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Paul Ashwin @paulashwin.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
It's wonderful to see Gerlese Åkerlind's brilliant OPEN ACCESS book on #phenomenography is out. I was deeply honoured to write the foreword for this important and beautifully written book: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
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Phenomenography in the 21st Century: A Methodology for Investigating Human Experience of the World
Phenomenography offers a distinctive approach to studying human experience of the world, by highlighting different ways in which the same phenomena (concepts, objects, events) are experienced within a...
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