HE assessment, language learning & testing, EAP @UniOfYork SFHEA and @taf_sig committee. Football, cycling, music, idleness & general arsing around
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Eddie Cowling retweeted
Why is it so tricky to design inclusive assessment that considers the diversity of students? Perhaps assessment and inclusion are simply incompatible. My @AheConference keynote exploring the paradox of inclusive assessment has been published! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
ALT Screenshot of the first page of the paper, including the title, author details and abstract of the study. The study was published in Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. Title: The paradox of inclusive assessment Author: Juuso Henrik Nieminen Abstract: please see the full abstract through the link
Eddie Cowling retweeted
It is morally wrong to use AI detectors when they produce false positives that smear students in ways that hurt them and where they can never prove their innocence.
Do not use them. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Eddie Cowling retweeted
📕SIG members @EdTedC & @RobPlayfair research lang assessment literacy, & how the TAFSIG Piloting Network can support #eap practitioners. cambridgeenglish.org/english… Then find out more about the (free!) network here: baleaptafsig.weebly.com/pilo… #tleap
Eddie Cowling retweeted
AI as tutor and critic: using tech to personalise education
Artificial intelligence can have practical applications for assessment in higher education, despite the focus on the threats it poses. On #THECampus, here are considerations when using AI to support teaching and generate feedback bit.ly/3MFJ7bH
ALT A woman whose face we can't see sits at a desk using a laptop and making notes
Eddie Cowling retweeted
Labour’s ‘change of tone’ revives foreign students’ interest in UK universities dlvr.it/TCxDkm
Eddie Cowling retweeted
Love this: @bphillipsonMP speech “Be in no doubt: international students are welcome in the UK. This new government values their contribution – to our universities, to our communities, to our country.” gov.uk/government/speeches/b…
Eddie Cowling retweeted
And that's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who joined us for #bbcqt this evening, whether in the studio, in the spin room, or via live TV.
As always, a huge thank you to the BBC and UoY colleagues who helped organise the event, bringing politics and democracy right here to campus
Eddie Cowling retweeted
Flipbook @AheConference please see the conference handbook in the form of this flip book. We look forward to seeing lots of you there &if you can’t come along, have a browse& see the calibre of what’s on offer & maybe come next year #AHEconf2024 flipbookpdf.net/web/site/a5a…
Eddie Cowling retweeted
Join us for the next @taf_sig event: Spotlight on Standardisation in EAP, 9th May at 13:00. See info below, use the QR code or register here forms.gle/eHxhiAfHoJCd91Gn6 @baleap @PhilSmythEAP
Eddie Cowling retweeted
Stay tuned for our next event on May 9 on standardization in EAP. This will be a Spotlight session and so a slightly different format to our regular coffee club one. Get the date in the diary. More details to follow
Eddie Cowling retweeted
Was a pleasure to co-organise and run the Online EAP Assessment Literacy in TNE Contexts Conference today. Some fantastic presentations and thought-proking discussions. The need for more dialogue/communication the main takeaway. #TNE #UniRdg_ISLI #EAP
Eddie Cowling retweeted
Teaching a class on prompting, and, once again, after a few rounds of prompts, my students find the big AI writing detectors say their AI work is written by humans.
Your AI detection tools are only identifying the bad AI users (and falsely accusing many others). Don’t use them!
Eddie Cowling retweeted
Overwhelmed that our paper has hit 100K reads/downloads. Is the most read paper in the Journal of Further and Higher Education @tandfonline
This study is a reminder of the challenge of oral presentations for some students in HE and that assessors should take this into account.
Eddie Cowling retweeted
DEER SHED WINS FESTIVAL OF THE YEAR 🏆
We’re absolutely thrilled to have been awarded Festival of the Year! Big thank you to The Live Awards and everyone involved last night 🧡
Honoured to have been recognised and more excited than ever for #Deershed2024
#TheLiveAwards
Eddie Cowling retweeted
Just a reminder that the next TAFSIG coffee club is happening this Thursday at 12pm. Info here (including some pre-session questions) baleaptafsig.weebly.com/upco… See you all there!
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Big news: our principles and propositions for assessment reform for a time of artificial intelligence are now published!
We're delighted to announce our new resource Assessment Reform for the Age of Artificial Intelligence, is now available.
Launched at today's #TEQSA23 Conference, this paper was developed in consultation leading Australian experts.
➡ teqsa.gov.au/sites/default/f…
#HigherEd #OzHe 1/2
ALT Cover of the Assessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence. Blue background with an orange triangle in the lower right corner containing the TEQSA logo.
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In Opinion
"Remote work has been good for almost everyone involved," Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford economist, writes in a guest essay. "We should support this golden moment and lay the five-day-office-week movement to rest." nyti.ms/3QtsMtz