David Carless
@carlessdavid.bsky.social
Professor of Feedback Literacy, University of Hong Kong
A huge congratulations to my doctoral supervisor @carlessdavid.bsky.social, on being recognised as a Stanford-Elsevier Top 2% Scientist in Education!👏👏 Single-Year Rank: #30/115,687 (Top 0.03%) Career Rank: #64/115,687 (Top 0.06%) What an honour and privilege to learn under his guidance!
An aspiration for feedback environments where generating and using feedback productively becomes a sustained habit www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AIJUS...
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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We inadvertently created a culture where admitting AI use feels risky
Wonkhe@wonkhe.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis week on Wonkhe: For Jo Irving-Walton, generative AI use is just one angle in a wider dopamine problem in higher education
Neat 6-minute presentation by Roger Kan of HKU SPACE
HKU SCAPE@hkuscape.bsky.social · 6mo ago🎙️In our latest episode, Roger Kan, EdD student, talks about his research into AI generated content in the teaching of Marketing. 🤖 🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1Io0... 🎧Official Website: scape.edu.hku.hk/the-human-si... #AI #EdTech #HigherEd #Research
🚀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...
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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"The single most important structural feature is whether a future accountability moment exists at which students will need to demonstrate understanding."
Wonkhe@wonkhe.bsky.social · 7mo agoNEW on Wonkhe: New research from Wonkhe finds that assessment design – not AI policy – is what determines whether students use AI to learn or to produce. Jim Dickinson and Mack Marshall explain buff.ly/gk0G71P
Educational development as both scholarship and impact on practice: useful contribution by Claire Gordon & Sam Smidt
LSE Higher Education Blog@lseheblog.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe education development centre dilemma: focus on scholarship and be asked "what are you doing to improve teaching?" Focus on practice and risk being dismissed as admin rather than academic partners. Claire Gordon & Sam Smidt offer a solution to the identity crisis. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
Well-argued analysis of both the power of AI, and what humans can offer in terms of augmented cognition
Wonkhe@wonkhe.bsky.social · 8mo agoNEW on Wonkhe: Mark Peace posits that our anxiety about the threats of AI to standards risk blinding us to a deeper need to reassert the value of humanness in knowledge work buff.ly/at08qPC
'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!
David Carless@carlessdavid.bsky.social · 10mo agoFeedback seeking is a high leverage strategy & worth modelling for learners: short blog post scape.edu.hku.hk/feedback-see...
Feedback seeking is a high leverage strategy & worth modelling for learners: short blog post scape.edu.hku.hk/feedback-see...
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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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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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...
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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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...
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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An interesting take on the wicked problem of GenAI-Assessment, I wonder what others think ...
Wonkhe@wonkhe.bsky.social · last yr.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
“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....
Academic feedback literacy: what HE professionals need to generate and make the most of feedback opportunities
Bas Trimbos@bastrimbos.bsky.social · last yr.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
‘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....
‘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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Yeah, feedback literacy to inform academic peer review 😀
Wonkhe@wonkhe.bsky.social · last yr.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
A social constructivist perspective on the development of student feedback literacy over a 4-year period. Free eprints www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BARHM...
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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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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Work towards three things from a presentation that audience members can recall one week later
International Social Epidemiology Society@ises-epi.bsky.social · 2y agoCitation: Bourne PE. Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations. PLOS Computational Biology. 2007;3(4): e77. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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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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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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....
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...
#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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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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My new baby. I do hope you find it engaging and of value…
'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...
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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Debate and role-play as interactive oral assessment: some tentative thoughts scape.edu.hku.hk/creative-ass...
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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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...
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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