Dr Phil Smyth 🇬🇧🇭🇰
@PhilSmythEAP
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Deputy Director Academic English Assessment at @UniRdg_ISLI. Author of Academic Matters blog: https://t.co/qEmYX2TNto
Crowthorne, England
Joined May 2012
My new paper on exemplars co-authored with @CarlessDavid is out now. Theorising how teachers manage the use of exemplars: towards mediated learning from exemplars. 50 free copies
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Exemplars are samples which illustrate dimensions of quality and enable students to understand assessment expectations. The theoretical basis for using exemplars lies principally in social construc...
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New article likely to interest @AheConference network 👇🏾
New publication alert! 🚨 Constructing assessment practices for knowledge building in science By @RobynYucel and @mags_blackie
https://t.co/09uybCIKcV
#HigherEd #AuthenticAssessment #EpistemicAgency #EvaluativeJudgment
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Not to be missed! Fumiyo Nakatsuhara's Inaugural Professorial Lecture will be on Thursday 28th of November (5:30 -7 pm UK time). Reserve a spot here:
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Join us for the inaugural lecture of Professor Fumiyo Nakatsuhara
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For those who missed today’s Essay is Dead/Long Live The Essay Workshop at UNSW teaching commons I present to you ‘The AI Wheel of Death’.
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This marketing video for the Royal Armouries in Leeds has made my day. 😂
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For anyone considering AI in assessment & learning ⬇️ this is such a rich resource: AI for feedback; a reality check about student use of AI; signposting to other resources … enjoyable and informative... Thank you @phillipdawson.
Today's episode is Swiss cheese https://t.co/nOyWWTf6YP thank you for the conversation as always @phillipdawson and @RayFleming
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New BALEAP podcast “All things EAP” . The new BALEAP podcast production team are very pleased to share the first two episodes of the ‘All Things EAP’ podcast! https://t.co/N1963CwRDr via @baleap
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Pleased to share that I will be giving a talk titled 'Gen AI in the Assessment of Writing and Speaking: Opportunities and Challenges' at an online event organised by the Future Education Development Association (FEDA) at the University of Oxford.
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Proud to share our recent article with Jeni Driscoll and @RobPlayfair in @LangScholar where we explore Teachers Forums, a form of grassroots teacher development, and the tensions of engaging in scholarship in a university language centre #EAP #Scholarship
https://t.co/f2lhujeJUI
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What is assessment for in the age of AI? The essay is not dead! But we need to focus on process much more @mart_compton
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The three AIs: Artificial intelligence, academic integrity, assessment innovation. @mart_compton describes all 3 as pandora’s boxes… do we want to look inside?
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GenAI is a catalyst for change, an opportunity argues @mart_compton
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Sattam Ray (UoR student) introduced the term Techno stress… the way that some students are stressed about all the uses of technology
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Students on this panel are asking for more assessments that involve critical thinking and showing what has been understood…
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How will genAI impact assessment in the future? Mike Crone (UoR student) pleads for teachers to NOT allow AI assistance at universities arguing that otherwise degrees could become worthless
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Other themes that UoR students are raising are choice of assessments, and nested scaffolded assessments where feedback can be used during a course. Giving examples (exemplars) also mentioned…
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How can academic staff make assessment more inclusive? Rahasia Ferrer (UoR student) asks for more guidance on assessment expectations and demystifying the assessment process… asks for two-way dialogue
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Students on the panel value constructive feedback and the opportunity to use AI
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