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!

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

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

Join us for the next BALEAP TAFSIG (Testing, Assessment and Feedback) event: Spotlight on Standardisation in EAP, 9th May at 13:00. See info below, use the QR code or register here forms.gle/eHxhiAfHoJCd91… BALEAP Dr Phil Smyth 🇬🇧🇭🇰

The BALEAP TAFSIG (Testing, Assessment and Feedback) recording of our Spotlight on Standardisation session is now available. Lots of useful discussion and insight into #EAP marker standardisation & moderation youtu.be/CHv-05vY_3A?si… #tleap Dr Phil Smyth 🇬🇧🇭🇰

Excellent talk and Q&A today by Paul Cooper at the #YorkIdeas festival 👌 Looking forward to the book!

Flipbook ⁦AHE Conference⁩ 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/a5a13…

Maybe today's big 5pm entertainment is the England match, OR maybe it's room 9 of the fantastic #aheconf2024 where we'll be blathering on about asynch video interviewing & how it can contribute to assessment 🎥

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

Great workshop from See me on LinkedIn - I've quit X (Phillip Dawson) & Tom Corbin @ #aheconf2024 Does the campaign to drop degree classifications in UK HigherEd start here? ✊️ (Other nuggets of sense, reverse scaffolding and..."It's all bullshit, but people are bullshit too")

Love this: ⁦Bridget Phillipson⁩ 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/spe…

Labour’s ‘change of tone’ revives foreign students’ interest in UK universities dlvr.it/TCxDkm

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

Next BALEAP BALEAP_TELSIG event is our AI Lightning Talks on Friday 20th Sept, 10-11am UK time. Register for links, and thanks everyone who's contributed! buytickets.at/telsig/1359463

Check out our chapter in Studies in Language Testing. Lots of useful work in this series for #tleap and assessment folk

📕SIG members Eddie Cowling & Rob Playfair research lang assessment literacy, & how the TAFSIG Piloting Network can support #eap practitioners. cambridgeenglish.org/english-resear… Then find out more about the (free!) network here: baleaptafsig.weebly.com/piloting-netwo… #tleap

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/…

Looking forward to seeing BALEAP colleagues Eddie Cowling presenting at the next ALT White Rose: Authentic Assessment Event alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/…

Why is it so tricky to design inclusive assessment that considers the diversity of students? Perhaps assessment and inclusion are simply incompatible. My AHE Conference keynote exploring the paradox of inclusive assessment has been published! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…