Jan McArthur 💙
@JanMcArthur
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Professor and Head of Department, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University. Views mine.
Lancaster University
Joined April 2014
Rethinking Authentic Assessment - my article is in the latest issue of Higher Education. Likely of interest to anyone engaging with what we mean by authentic assessment, & how best to change our assessment practices. Open access: .
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Farewell twitter folk. I've been lucky to have had many positive experiences on this platform - before it got wrecked. Please join me for more on education and social justice - plus, cats, chickens and gardens - on LinkedIn and @janmcarthur.bsky.social.
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RT @bethan_garrett: Amazing morning presenting a keynote at the Edge Sustainable Education Summit! So many great themes of community, compa….
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HECU - the Higher Education Close-Up - conference and community can now be found over on the beautiful blue butterfly site:
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It always confuses me how many people in the UK just accept an unelected house in Parliament. There simply is no justification.
Wait till you see the rest of my amendments tomorrow. I can't abolish the Lords in this particular Bill but I can abolish its membership. We'll start with the donors and the appointed cronies and work downwards. Scottish Labour will of course support me!!!?
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RT @PeteWishart: They get £342 per day just for turning up but don't pay one penny of tax. If they paid their share it would cover the wint….
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SNP Deputy Westminster Leader Pete Wishart will table an amendment to tax peers on their £342 daily allowance.
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I'll be leaving this space at the end of November. Find me at the happy little blue bird site, or LinkedIn. There are alternatives to greed and corruption. xx.
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RT @profbmac: The 'duty to explain' is a more a positive way of understanding that the university teacher should not indoctrinate the stude….
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This paper defines a university teacher’s ‘duty to explain’ as a way of developing student autonomy. This builds on the idea that in other professions, such as medicine or law, there is a duty of c...
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RT @paulashwin: I co-authored this @HEPI_news blog on the development of tertiary education in England:
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A holistic, coordinated tertiary education approach could revitalize post-18 education, balancing central governance with regional needs and institutional autonomy.
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RT @devisridhar: Women should lift each other up in the workplace. Could have said- 'it's a brilliant achievement tho we differ in our poli….
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RT @Parody_PM: Priti Patel has been made Shadow Foreign Secretary, which is a great excuse to remember that time Ian Hislop hilariously des….
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RT @CielEducation: Fascinating and challenging article by @JuusoNieminen on the paradoxes of inclusive assessment. #highereducation #Academ….
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Really pleased to have a chapter in this important new volume on assessment and feedback in HE. Great working with Carol and Michael as editors too.
🎓NEW: Research Handbook on #Innovations in Assessment and Feedback in Higher #Education by Carol Evans & Michael Waring. FREE chapter: More information: .#HigherEducation @eileenpmcevoy @rmforsyth.Endorsed by @john_hattie
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RT @garyyounge: Good to see at least one refugee being treated decently.
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RT @DrCABaker: Delighted to see my research engagement with policymakers and that of colleagues @FASSResearch_LU featured in this new publ….
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RT @DerekJHird: The @LancasterUni School of Global Affairs @globalaffairslu offers four new master’s degrees, each of which provides disti….
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RT @supertanskiii: The horrifying reality of being a woman, perfectly summarised by @_CaitlinORyan . If you give even the slightest shit ab….
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RT @TeachinginHE: New publication alert! 🚨. Black Lives Matter here too: amplifying blackness in research methods. Points for Departure pap….
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Excellent questions @Luci_Willis.
Where is consent on schools for the use of edtech platforms, what are we being sold? What implicit or explicit messages are young people receiving from their use of these platforms? #IBGC2024
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