* HERDSA Special Interest Group Online Engagement in Higher Education: Upcoming Event
* Higher Education Research & Development, Vol. 42 No. 4 is now available online
* AARE Assessment and Measurement SIG Webinar: Investigating the role of feedback in students' evaluative judgement
* CRADLE Seminar Series: What can students draw from scientific practice that is transferable and an it be authentically assessed?
* New article from JANZSSA: Supporting students’ academic language development
* New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development

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HERDSA Special Interest Group Online Engagement in Higher Education: Upcoming Event
Thursday 17th August

Join us at this special HERSDA Online Engagement SiG Lunchbox event to hear a series of lightning talks from presenters at the HERDSA & STARS conference, Brisbane, 2023.

Title: The latest and greatest research on online engagement
Date: Thursday 17th August
Time: 12.00-1.00pm (AEST)

Register for the event below.

Further information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-latest-and-greatest-research-on-online-...

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Higher Education Research & Development, Vol. 42 No. 4 is now available online

Higher Education Research & Development, Vol. 42 No. 4 is now available from the HERDSA website at https://www.herdsa.org.au/higher-education-research-development-vol-42-no-4

Free online access is available to HERDSA members through your member dashboard.

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AARE Assessment and Measurement SIG Webinar: Investigating the role of feedback in students' evaluative judgement
Friday, 30th June 2023; 1p-2p AEST (online, free)

Investigating the role of feedback in students' evaluative judgement
Fri, Jun. 30, 2023 13:00:00 — 14:00:00 AEST (online, free)

Jimena's doctoral research aims to understand how feedback practices can support students' evaluative judgement. Departing from a sociocultural approach to feedback, she is interviewing students and teachers and collecting data regarding feedback designs to understand how students may understand what quality work looks like.

In her presentation, Jimena will:
- Provide a literature background about feedback and evaluative judgement;
- Present a conceptualisation of evaluative judgement for the purpose of her research;
- Present her intended research design and briefly mention how her data collection is going, pointing out the conceptual and methodological challenges she had/has.

Further information: https://www.aare.edu.au/events/calendar/aare-assessment-and-measurement-...

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CRADLE Seminar Series: What can students draw from scientific practice that is transferable and an it be authentically assessed?
2pm, 12 July 2023

In this seminar visiting academic Associate Professor Mags Blackie of the Centre for Higher Education Research at Rhodes University, South Africa, and Deakin’s Dr Robyn Yucel from Deakin Learning Futures will discuss authentic assessment in science.

Designing authentic assessment for generalist degree programs such as the Bachelor of Science is challenging. Assessment should be authentic to the task types and contexts where graduates will apply their knowledge and skills in their future work and community interactions. Assessment tasks such as laboratory reports are authentic to scientific research. However, given the diversification of science graduate destinations, the vast majority of B.Sc. graduates in Australia (Palmer et al., 2018) and South Africa (Blackie, 2019) do not engage in scientific research practice in their future careers.

In this seminar, we argue that students can develop an understanding of the nature, process and culture of science through reflecting on the practice of science and the epistemic status of the knowledge it produces (Blackie, 2022; Yucel, in press). A critical perspective on the scientific enterprise challenges the dominant mode of teaching which implies that science is an untouchable canon of knowledge (Blackie, 2022). Roy Bhaskar’s critical realist framework of ontological realism, epistemological relativism, and judgemental rationality (Bhaskar, 1975) supports a nuanced perspective on science that aligns with the views of scientists (Yucel, 2018). This is thus useful to inform the teaching and learning of a critical perspective on science.
This seminar focuses on how science academics could draw on their own scientific research to inform the design of authentic assessment that build students’ understanding of the nature, process, and culture of science. Drawing on data generated through conversation with science academics, we will show the importance of reflecting on practice to inform teaching and assessment in science.

Further information: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/cradle-seminar-series-authentic-assessme...

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New article from JANZSSA: Supporting students’ academic language development

A new Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association (JANZSSA) article reports on an innovative program supporting students’ academic language development at The University of Sydney.

The successful Student Communication and Needs Analysis (SCANA) program identifies students at risk of failure due to insufficient academic language proficiency and provides targeted support interventions.

While language support programs commonly target international students, the authors found diverse student cohorts benefitted from further academic language support, particularly individuals from equity groups.

The open access article, SCANA: Supporting Students’ Academic Language Development at The University of Sydney, is now available on the JANZSSA website.

If you’d like to showcase your practice or research to enhance student engagement, participation, wellbeing, and success, JANZSSA submissions are currently open.

Further information: janzssa.scholasticahq.com/article/81047-scana-supporting-students-academic-language-development-at-the-university-of-sydney

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New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development

The development of the perceptions of graduate assistants and faculty professional working relationships instrument, Xueying Gao, Yuting Chen & Laurie O. Campbell, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2218815

‘Everything was going to be really easy for me’: elite schooling, old boys, and transitions to university, Cameron Meiklejohn, Stewart Riddle & Andrew Hickey, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2218800

Theorising new possibilities for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and teaching-focused academics, Nattalia Godbold, Kelly E. Elizabeth Matthews & Deanne Gannaway, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2218809

New developments in internationalisation of higher education, Ly Thi Tran, Jisun Jung, Lisa Unangst & Stephen Marshall, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2216062

Typologising internationalisation in UK university strategies: reputation, mission and attitude, Sylvie Lomer, Jenna Mittelmeier & Steve Courtney, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2193729

Learning to unlearn: exploring the relationship between internationalisation and decolonial agendas in higher education, Catherine Montgomery & Sheila Trahar, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2194054

Nation-bounded internationalization of higher education: a comparative analysis of two periphery countries, Betul Bulut Sahin & Rachel Brooks, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2193723

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