Tara Winstead on Pexels.com In undergraduate education today, interdisciplinarity is often promoted as a way to broaden students’ academic perspectives and develop their intellectual, social, and i…

Explore the article collection: Critical scholarship on educational assessment. Published in Teaching in Higher Education.

Assessment is profoundly political, yet assessment scholarship has given limited attention to matters of power, equity and social justice. In this paper, we call for scholarship on assessment, feed...

The politics of assessment Special issue editors: Juuso Henrik Nieminen, Jan McArthur, Tim Fawns Budget Bizar on Pexels.com Assessment is profoundly political in how it shapes students’ lives, futu…

PDF | On Jul 31, 2026, Juuso Henrik Nieminen and others published How effective are inclusive pedagogies in higher education? A meta-review | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchG...

In this post, CRADLE PhD student Xin Liu reflects on our sixth seminar for 2026, ‘Are you afraid of the doubt? Educator uncertainty in fully online programs’. In this seminar Professor …

Volume 31, Issue 6 of Teaching in Higher Education

Universities worldwide increasingly offer interdisciplinary learning experiences alongside traditional disciplinary curricula, yet there is limited empirical attention to how teachers design interd...

Higher STEM education is framed as a gateway to societal inclusion for historically underrepresented and marginalised students, including disabled students. Inclusive pedagogies play a crucial role in...

Higher education sectors worldwide have largely adopted a rhetoric of assessment redesign, calling for fundamental ‘rethinking’, ‘reforming’ and ‘reimagining’ of assessment. This rhetoric is partic...

In interdisciplinary undergraduate education, the integration of knowledge structures and social practices across disciplines poses challenges, as teachers and students may be unaware of the differ...

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 ...

Published in Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Relational pedagogies in an age of GenAI Special issue editors: Karen Gravett, Naomi Winstone, and Kieran Balloo This special issue will look at relational pedagogies in contemporary digitalised hi…

In this seminar CRADLE’s Dr Juuso Nieminen will critically discuss why higher education systems continue to use grades despite plenty of evidence on how they don’t work, and whether we should now m…

Grades have been criticised for as long as they have existed. For at least a century, scholars have claimed that grades are inaccurate and unreliable; they provide overly simplistic reductions of stud...

Feedback is often cited as one of the strongest influences on student learning. Current conceptualisations of feedback are largely divided across two paradigms that position students either as ‘pas...

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have begun to change the way in which research and the writing of research papers are being conducted. This posting is designed to keep authors who pla…

Photo by Wong Ching Kristy What is undergraduate education for? A wealth of scholarly criticism has claimed that universities are facing a ‘knowledge crisis’ as undergraduate education is increasin…

Feedback seeking involves proactive student roles in inquiring from others or monitoring progress independently. Feedback seeking has promising potential to aid performance, but students are often ...

Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...

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...

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...

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...

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,…

Feedback seeking is a proactive process through which students solicit performance-relevant information from their environment. Students’ motivation to seek feedback predicts their related percepti...

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 …

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