“If better teaching is enabling students to meet a higher standard then it’s not grade inflation, it’s actually “grade improvement”. Phillip Dawson Thomas Corbin

So-called 'grade inflation' is only a problem if it's not matched by improvements to student learning. New piece with Thomas Corbin in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
theconversation.com/if-uni-marks-a…

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Gool Peran Lowen!

Congratulations to Anup Basu, Nathan Boase, Danica Hickey & Vinesh Chandra for their #AAUT  Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning QUT #UASolutionsSummit

Early evening #CoolumBeach Feb 24

I’m in the top income tax bracket. The changes announced today will halve my tax cut - not increase my tax but halve my tax cut.

The savings will be used to give a tax cut to low and middle income earners, who are under cost of living pressure.

I consider that fair.

Our editorial for tremendous special issue on Intensive Mode Teaching JUTLP Read the papers, and commentary by Jason M Lodge and Kevin Ashford-Rowe 〓〓🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🇪🇺🇺🇦
ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/

As 2024 begins, we are lucky share this new editorial, 'Intensive Modes of Teaching, Past, Present and Future.'
We are very excited that Ian Solomonides, Gayani Samarawickrema, Kaye Cleary and Sally Male have shared their work with us. Read their paper here: doi.org/10.53761/1.21.…

Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice Special Issue Volume 21, Issue 2 (2024) Intensive Modes of Teaching: Past, Present and Future ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol21/is…

…and nor should you Natasha Carthew

.Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський you are defending the children of all of us who shelter under the banner of democracy in the ongoing fight against despotism… #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦

Ukraine is the vanguard in the fight for democracy over despotism…they are fighting for us all! The very least we should morally, pragmatically and practically do is fully and unequivocally assist them! #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦

Well said Michael Pascoe ‘…from each according to his/her/their ability to each according to their need.’

During 2023 CRADLE held 10 seminars. We discussed many topics, including:
Assessment and student identity formation,
Feedback literacy,
Authentic assessment,
Student belonging.

Did you miss out? Want to revisit? Catch up on our blog: blogs.deakin.edu.au/cradle/missed-…

No surprises here…not for me anyway. Time to move on from this as the ‘default’ approach to assessing…
We reviewed the arguments for and against 'high-stakes' exams. The evidence for using them doesn’t stack up theconversation.com/we-reviewed-th… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

One for you Nicole Clark 🌈❤️📚 & Sarah Howard #LibrariesUseThemorLoseThem
…great advice from a great #Cornish author Natasha Carthew

Hardcopy finally arrived...bit slower to get to Brisbane 🙂 It's surprisingly big and heavy... thanks again to my co-editors Michael Sankey and Rachel Fitzgerald 🇮🇪 🇦🇺, and to all the excellent contributors. More info at: link.springer.com/referencework/…

Big news: our principles and propositions for assessment reform for a time of artificial intelligence are now published!

They say that moving between higher ed and VET is hard, but where there is a logical link between courses transition rates are quite high. Good use of MADIP data. jobsandskills.gov.au/data/vet-natio…