Doctoral students face a myriad of challenges as they navigate their entry into the academic community. A key aspect of this professional development process is active participation in internationa...

International research stays are widely recognised for enhancing doctoral training, yet their contribution to the professional development of emerging teacher educators remains underexplored. This ...

International research stays are widely recognised for enhancing doctoral training, yet their contribution to the professional development of emerging teacher educators remains underexplored. This ...

This concurrent mixed-methods study examined how master’s students (n = 179) perceive supervisory feedback and how these perceptions relate to feedbac…

This study focuses on the quality of teacher–student interactions and feedback in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). Data consisted of 65 video-recorded lessons from 13 classrooms in two...

This study examined students’ feedback engagement and assessment experiences in a higher education teacher programme with the Assessment Experience Questionnaire (n = 182) and individual interviews...

Globally, correlations are reported between lower academic attainment and university students being a member of an ‘equity’ or ‘historically under-represented’ group. We seek to illuminate how this...

When David Carless published a paper on feedback literacy, its impact exceeded his most optimistic dreams. He explains how he did it

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...

Doctoral students face a myriad of challenges as they navigate their entry into the academic community. A key aspect of this professional development process is active participation in internationa...

Published in School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2025)

Doctoral students face a myriad of challenges as they navigate their entry into the academic community. A key aspect of this professional development process is active participation in internationa...

Doctoral students face a myriad of challenges as they navigate their entry into the academic community. A key aspect of this professional development process is active participation in internationa...

Authentic assessment is often positioned as an educational panacea, invoked in response to a broad range of complex problems. This paper considers authentic assessment in relation to three key chal...

This paper discusses teacher capacities for implementing learning-focused feedback processes within the social contexts of feedback regimes. Data are derived from longitudinal interviews carried ou...

My Conversation with Dr Jessica To

Professor David Carless talks about his recent co-authored article: ⁠https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2389436

Feedback research in higher education indicates teachers are required to support students in developing feedback literacy (ie the ability to make sense of feedback and use it). Emphasising the role...

This qualitative study investigated lower-secondary school teachers’ (n = 19), principals’ (n = 7), and university-based teacher-educators’ (n = 7) experiences in university-school collaboration fo...

This qualitative study investigated lower-secondary school teachers’ (n = 19), principals’ (n = 7), and university-based teacher-educators’ (n = 7) experiences in university-school collaboration fo...

Universities can prepare students for work, and universities can educate increasingly diverse student cohorts, but can they do both concurrently? This question of whether universities can offer equ...

This study examined students’ experiences of assessment and feedback engagement in digital contexts in upper secondary school through an explanatory sequential mixed-methods case study. The data ma...

Despite a large amount of critical research literature, traditional examinations continue to be widely used in higher education. This article reviews recent literature in order to assess the role p...

Last week, I visited Zayed University for the university’s Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) conference, where I offered a keynote talk … here’s the gist! The talk essentially walked thro…

This research and academic development event provides a forum for critical debate of research and innovative focused assessment and feedback practice and policy. We have provocative, forward-lookin…