Professor David Boud

David Boud is Deakin Distinguished Professor and Foundation Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning at Deakin University, Australia.

Following the disruptions: addressing continuing issues for assessment

Wednesday 10^th July 2024, 2pm – 3pm (location - Wolfson Research Exchange, The Library)

Two disruptions have hit us in recent years. The first was COVID and the emergency move online; while the pandemic has passed there has been an uneasy and partial reversion to the previous status quo. The second is the rise of Generative AI, in which we are now immersed. While each has unique challenges, their greatest effect was to expose the generally poor state of assessment and our vulnerability to issues that we should have confronted many years ago. The aim of this presentation is to look at the assessment challenges we need to face now and what we can do about them. Examples include assessing in ways that do not allow us to know what a student can do, over-assessing some outcomes, ignoring others, and pretending we can assess more accurately than is possible.

David Boud is Deakin Distinguished Professor and Foundation Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning at Deakin University, Australia. He is also Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney and Professor of Work and Learning at Middlesex University. He has published extensively on teaching, learning and assessment in higher and professional education. He has been a pioneer in developing learning-centred approaches and in changing conceptions of feedback. His recent books with various others: Re-imagining University Assessment in a Digital World, Springer, 2020; Assessment for Inclusion in Higher Education: Promoting Equity and Social Justice in Assessment, Routledge, 2023. He is one of the most highly cited scholars in the field of higher education (Google Scholar h-index of 110).

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