@juusonieminen.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow at the Centre of Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University • Assessment, feedback and grades • Equity, inclusion and belonging • #HigherEd #MathEd
Grades have been criticised for as long as they have existed, yet little has changed. Perhaps it is time for new approaches? Our new paper on post-critical approaches to grading with @margaretbea.bsky.social, Rola Ajjawi and David Boud is out in Higher Education! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
11.02.2026 06:48 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Feedback as an epistemic practice – new paper out! 🚨
With an awesome team of Jack Walton, Peter J. Cobb and myself, we call for an understanding of feedback as 'knowing in action'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Generative AI and Teaching in Higher Education 🚨
Read our blog post about our journal’s stance towards authors’ use of AI tools in their research, and how this aligns with the AI policy by Taylor & Francis
#HigherEducation #GenAI
teachinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/g...
"Normally, you move quickly from lecture to test... That's very different from Armenia, where knowledge emerged gradually, unpredictably, and subconsciously"
New blog post by Wong Ching Kristy on the rollercoaster of undergraduate education
teachinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/t...
Becoming a disabled teacher: teacher placements as sites for identity formation
Our new study with @molliedollin.bsky.social and @rfinnera.bsky.social has been published in The Australian Educational Researcher!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
👏Our new article on student feedback seeking highlights the potential of combined monitoring & inquiry.
😀Many thanks again for the valuable support from @carlessdavid.bsky.social and @juusonieminen.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Epistemic cultures in undergraduate education – our new study with Peter J. Cobb is out in @teachinginhe.bsky.social! 🚨 @apsap.bsky.social
It's an ode to 'strange' learning experiences in higher education, and to undergraduate research...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Screenshot of tweet from the ARC saying they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes on Tuesday 25th Nov.
ARC says they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 25th Nov).
In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).
70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge. In the picture, the word ’perspectives’ is crossed out and replaced with the term ‘conversations’.
New podcast in our AI in #HigherEd series! 🚨
Join Ibrar Bhatt as he talks with Jiahui (Jess) Luo about her study “How does GenAI affect trust in teacher-student relationships?”
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/2G1v...
Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
White text on green background, a snip from a published paper. Text reads "Where are all the parents? An analysis of visibility, representation, and information for parents on university websites", shows that the article was published 6 Nov 2025, in Higher Education. Published: 06 November 2025
Universities make concerted choices about the content they put on their websites - it is their face to the world 🌍 In our new paper led by @katrinamcchesney.bsky.social, we looked to see how parents are positioned in institutional websites in Australia and New Zealand. doi.org/10.1007/s107...
10.11.2025 03:10 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
I'd appreciate help circulating this survey, part of our overall work on neurodivergence.
This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines.
You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge. In the picture, the word ’perspectives’ is crossed out and replaced with the term ‘conversations’.
New podcast in our AI in #HigherEd series! 🚨
In this podcast, Gene Flenady talks about his article ‘Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors’, co-authored by Robert Sparrow
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/7g4w...
Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Framing student navigation of feedback on placements by David Boud, Elizabeth Molloy and Vicky Chang. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.
New publication alert! 🚨
Framing student navigation of feedback on placements
By David Boud, Elizabeth Molloy and Vicky Chang
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEd #Feedback #WorkIntegratedLearning
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge. The cover also states the name of the Special Issue (Getting Critical About Critique in Higher Education) and the Guest Editors (Kathy Luckett, Ibrar Bhatt and Alison MacKenzie)
List of contents (please see the link for the full list of articles in the Special Issue)
List of contents (please see the link for the full list of articles in the Special Issue)
New Special Issue: Getting Critical About Critique in Higher Education 🚨
The SI rethinks the meaning and practices of ‘criticality’, foregrounds diverse perspectives (Confucianism, Arabic-Islamic philosophy...), and opens new pathways for global scholarship
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cthe20/3...
Inclusive assessment design: students with disabilities speak out
My new study has been published in @herdjournal.bsky.social! What do 139 students have to say about how assessment could be made more inclusive?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How should academic journals navigate these turbulent times in social media? Some musings by myself in the @teachinginhe.bsky.social blog - see below!
06.10.2025 02:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Professor Erik De Corte, Professor Lucia Mason (EARLI President) and Dr Juuso Nieminen
Congratulations to @juusonieminen.bsky.social on being awarded the prestigious Erik De Corte award at #EARLI2025! The award recognises an early career researcher who demonstrates exceptional promise in the field of Learning and Instruction. Well done Juuso!
blogs.deakin.edu.au/cradle/juuso...
Compassionate Assessment Practice Sharing Symposium, 11 September 2025
We are pleased to announce that the Compassionate Assessment Network is hosting an online symposium. We warmly invite educators, researchers, policymakers and administrators to join us. Call out for submission details here:
How has scholarly research produced knowledge about self-assessment – and the 'selves' of self-assessment, students? Years in the making, our meta-review and discourse analysis of student self-assessment research with David Boud has been published www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
28.05.2025 04:40 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
New blog post by Sam Illingworth! 🚨
"If we want to improve retention, we need to support our educators – by fostering a culture where learning is shared, creativity is valued, and development feels both personal and powerful"
teachinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/d...
Screencap of our article in Teaching in Higher Education and the cover of Teaching in Higher Education
Our Open Access article with Juuso Nieminen of Deakin University is assigned a volume in Teaching in Higher Education🎉It explores how authentic assessment can foster students’ #epistemic #agency, based on a qualitative case study of a digitally-mediated #archaeology course. doi.org/10.1080/1356...
21.05.2025 13:43 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Why do students seek feedback – or choose not to? Our newly published study explores the motivational rationales for students' feedback seeking processes. Huge congratulations to the hugely talented @belindazhouhl.bsky.social on her first publication! 🥳 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
20.05.2025 09:50 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors by Gene Flenady and Robert Sparrow. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.
New publication alert! 🚨
Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors
By Gene Flenady and Robert Sparrow
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEducation #GenAI
🚨 New blog post by Claire Timperley and Kate Schick!
"Creative assessments can expand students’ and teachers’ understanding of what education can be – not just an instrumental expression of what students have learned in exchange for a grade"
teachinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/s...
Thrilled to see my new article in @pspolisci.bsky.social, published open access on first view today: ‘Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education?’
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Towards transformatory critique: reframing curriculum for student focus by Cameron Graham. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.
New publication alert! 🚨
Towards transformatory critique: reframing curriculum for student focus
By Cameron Graham
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEducation #Criticality
How could students be seen as meaningful partners in assessment design, and what do we know about the impact of such partnership practices? Our new review paper with @molliedollin.bsky.social and Tracy Zou is out in Review of Education! bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
23.04.2025 03:41 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The new TiHE Special Issue on #AuthenticAssesment is out!
David Boud and I contributed to the SI with a paper on self-assessment. What could self-assessment desing learn from authenticity? Read our thoughts on how (in)authenticity could be understood in SA:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspecitives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge. Next to the cover reads a text: Editor's Choice Award 2025, Winner!
We're delighted to announce that the winner of our Editors' Choice Award for 2025 is Jiahui Luo (Jess) for the article entitled:
How does GenAI affect trust in teacher-student relationships? Insights from students’ assessment experiences
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#GenAI #AIinEducation