CRADLE Honorary Professor Appointed: Dr Gordon Joughin
2 February 2021
CRADLE is pleased to announce the reappointment of Dr Gordon Joughin as a CRADLE Honorary Professor. Dr Joughin is a higher education consultant working with CRADLE on decision-making in assessment and evaluation. He is a major figure in assessment research and is the leading researcher in Australia in the areas of the spoken versus the written word in assessment and learning. His current research considers decision-making theory in assessment design and the nature of spoken work in oral assessment. He has a distinguished record of publications and OLT grants in the area of assessment and, before returning to Australia, was a key researcher in the Hong Kong University Grants Commission-funded project on learning-oriented assessment.
Dr Joughin has participated in a variety of research activities with CRADLE since 2015 and held an Honorary Professor appointment from 2016-2019. Whilst too numerous to list all contributions, he has presented seminars and was a delegate at the CRADLE International Symposium 2016 on Evaluative Judgement and contributed as a presenter, as well as authoring a chapter ‘Limits to evaluative judgement’ in the resultant book Developing Evaluative Judgement. He has co-authored four published papers with CRADLE surrounding reframing assessment practices, designing assessments and students’ evaluative judgements, with additional publications to follow. He has been involved in collaborative research and evaluation projects, the most recent being the evaluation of international staff and student experiences of collaboration in an international, cross-institutional online degree with University Coventry.
Dr Joughin is a former Director of the Teaching and Educational Development Institute (TEDI) at the University of Queensland. He has published extensively on assessment and learning in higher education, including editing Assessment, Learning and Judgement (Springer, 2009).
You can learn more about Dr Joughin at ResearchGate.
Recent publications:
Joughin, G. (2018). Limits to evaluative judgement. In D. Boud, R. Ajjawi, P. Dawson & J. Tai (eds) Developing evaluative judgement in higher education (pp. 60-69). London: Routledge https://www.routledge.com/Developing-Evaluative-Judgement-in-Higher-Education-Assessment-for-Knowing/Boud-Ajjawi-Dawson-Tai/p/book/9781138089358
Joughin, G., Boud, D., Dawson, P., & Tai, J. (2020). What can higher education learn from feedback seeking behaviour in organisations? Implications for feedback literacy. Assessment & Evaluation In Higher Education, 46(1), 80-91. doi: 10.1080/02602938.2020.1733491
