Publications
Since 2015 the CRADLE team have published a significant amount of journal articles for various journals around the world.
Latest Journal Publications
Generative AI
- Corbin, T., Bearman, M., Boud, D., & Dawson, P. (2026). The wicked problem of AI and assessment. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 51(4), 736-752. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2025.2553340
- Corbin, T., Bearman, M., Fawns, T., Flenady, G., Formosa, P., Liang, Y., McKnight, L., Reynolds, J., & Walton, J. (2026). Hybrid reading practices: how GenAI summarisers can support rather than replace reading. Studies in Higher Education. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2026.2708138
- Corbin, T., Dawson, P., Nicola-Richmond, K., & Partridge, H. (2025). ‘Where’s the line? It’s an absurd line’: towards a framework for acceptable uses of AI in assessment. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 50(5), 705-717. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2025.2456207
- Corbin, T., Sharpe, S., & Dawson, P. (2026). On AI glasses and wearable AI in assessment. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2026.2661367
- Dollinger, M., & Nieminen, J. (2026). Reimagining Success and Failure: Equitable Assessment Practices in an Age of Artificial Intelligence. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.53761/20z06b11
- Luo, J., & Dawson, P. (2025). Exploring value judgements in grading: will teachers mark down student work assisted by GenAI, and should they? Studies in Higher Education. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2025.2552825
- Nieminen, J. H., Bearman, M., Boud, D., Corbin, T., Dawson, P., Tai, J., & Walton, J. (2026). Grading in an age of assessment reform: the elephant in the room. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2026.2694451
- Winstone, N., Gravett, K., Noble, C., Nicola-Richmond, K., Bearman, M., Jensen, L. X., Jones, A., Corbin, T., de Kleijn, R., Gabelica, C., Kainth, R., Poobalan, A., & Reedy, G. (2025). Manifesto for feedback in the age of generative artificial intelligence. Copenhagen Feedback Symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30195568
Assessment
- Fawns, T., Boud, D., & Dawson, P. (2026). Identifying what our students have learned: a framework for practical assessment validation. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2026.2620053
- Lam, M. H. A., & Nieminen, J. H. (2026). How do teachers design assessment in interdisciplinary education? Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2026.2710689
- Nieminen, J. H., Bearman, M., Ajjawi, R., & Boud, D. (2026). Beyond a critique of grades. Higher Education. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-026-01627-z
- Nieminen, J. H., & Boud, D. (2025). Student self-assessment: a meta-review of five decades of research. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 32(2), 127-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969594X.2025.2510211
- Nieminen, J. H., Dollinger, M., & Zou, T. X. P. (2025). Student partnership in assessment: What works, for whom, why, and under what circumstances? Review of Education, 13(1), Article e70059. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.70059
- Nieminen, J. H., Yan, Z., & Boud, D. (2025). Self-assessment design in a digital world: centring student agency. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 50(5), 731-746. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2025.2467647
- Zhan, Y., Boud, D., & Du, Z. (2025). Designing for authentic assessment: a scoping review. Higher Education. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-025-01588-9
Assessment Security & Academic Integrity
- Awdry, R. (2024). Academic Misconduct Through a Criminological Lens. In S. E. Eaton (Ed.), Second Handbook of Academic Integrity (pp. 1671-1688). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54144-5_189
- Dawson, P. (2024). Remote Proctoring: Understanding the Debate. In S. E. Eaton (Ed.), Second Handbook of Academic Integrity (pp. 1511-1526). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54144-5_150
- Dawson, P., Bearman, M., Dollinger, M., & Boud, D. (2024). Validity matters more than cheating. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 49(7), 1005-1016. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2024.2386662
- Dawson, P., & Dollinger, M. (2024). Challenging cheating? Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 49(7), 907–910. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2024.2411125
- Chung, J., Henderson, M., Slade, C., Liang, Y., Pepperell, N., Corbin, T., Walton, J., Yu, A. S., Bearman, M., Buckingham Shum, S., Fawns, T., McCluskey, T., McLean, J., Oberg, G., Seligmann, A., Shibani, A., Bakharia, A., Lim, L.-A., & Matthews, K. E. (2026). The use and usefulness of GenAI in higher education: Student experience and perspectives. Computers and Education Open, 10, 100347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2026.100347
Evaluative Judgement
- Boshrabadi, A. M., & Boud, D. (2025). How can first-year assessment contribute to the continuing development of students’ academic writing skills? Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969594X.2025.2538515
- Deck, S. L., Denne, E., Boud, D., Brubacher, S. P., Bearman, M. J., & Powell, M. B. (2025). Evaluating the effectiveness of a child interviewer training programme: evidence of evaluative judgement skills. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2025.2583095
- Fischer, J. (2026). Context matters! Unpacking its role in evaluative judgement through the Theory of Practice Architectures. Teaching in Higher Education. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2026.2674276
- Gladovic, C., Tai, J. H.-M., Nicola-Richmond, K., & Dawson, P. (2026). The feedback process as a scaffold of evaluative judgement. Higher Education Research & Development, 45(3), 538-553. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2559635
- Kang, J., Boud, D., Tai, J., & Hughes, L. K. (2026). How can we help students develop evaluative judgement? A scoping review of pedagogical approaches. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2026.2672116
Feedback
- Corbin, T., Tai, J., & Flenady, G. (2026). The pedagogical power of recognition in feedback. Teaching in Higher Education. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2026.2633634
- Istencioglu, T., Boud, D., Dawson, P., & Yang, L. (2026). Teacher feedback literacy as an emerging field: a scoping review. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2026.2631533
- Kisworo, A. Y., Nieminen, J. H., & Boud, D. (2026). Feedback dialogue in intercultural doctoral supervision. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2026.2621273
- Little, T., Dawson, P., Boud, D., & Tai, J. (2025). What does it take to provide effective peer feedback? Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 50(5), 775-786. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2025.2475059
- Molloy, E., & Boud, D. (2026). Feedback Practices at Work. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003587125
Inclusion & Inclusive Assessment
- Harris, L. R., Tai, J., Mahoney, P., Dargusch, J., Bearman, M., & Ajjawi, R. (2026). An intersectional analysis of students with disabilities’ exam experiences. Teaching in Higher Education, 31(2), 304-322. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2025.2573703
- Gray, L., McNeill, B., Woodman, J., Bernard, S., Kos, J., Hewitt, Y., Goldingay, S., Hayley, A., Hitch, D., Macfarlane, S., Pecora, L., Watchorn, V., & Evans, S. (2026). “You Have So Much to Offer as a Health Professional”: Neurodivergent Students’ Experiences of Recognition, Disclosure, and Accommodation in Australian Health Professions Education. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10401334.2026.2632753
- Nieminen, J. H. (2025). Inclusive assessment design: students with disabilities speak out. Higher Education Research & Development, 45(4), 1047-1062. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2564995
- Nieminen, J. H., & Ruttenberg-Rozen, R. (2026). Inclusive pedagogies in higher STEM education: a critical review. Cultural Studies of Science Education. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-026-10289-3
- Tai, J. (2025). Designing assessment for inclusion: How does culture fit in? Muslim Education Review, 4(2), 168-201. https://doi.org/10.56529/mer.v4i2.527
Student Identity, Equity and Belonging
- Ajjawi, R., Crawford, N., Bearman, M., Brett, M., Dollinger, M., & Tai, J. (2025). The house of cards: equity-group students’ experiences of structural inequity in higher education. Higher Education Research & Development 44(4), 793-807. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2456819 (Teaching in Higher Education Editors Choice Award for 2026)
- Ajjawi, R., Fischer, J., Adachi, C., Bearman, M., Boud, D., Macfarlane, S., Tran, L. T., & Coutts, K. (2026). Coming to belong in the university through small acts of connection. Studies in Higher Education, 51(1), 197-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2025.2462666
- Bearman, M., & Ajjawi, R. (2025). Artificial intelligence and gender equity: An integrated approach for health professional education. Medical Education, 59(10), 1049-1057. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.15657
- Cheung, H. K., & Nieminen, J. H. (2025). ‘I’m a cracked vase’: identity narratives of disabled pre-service teachers. Disability & Society, 40(11), 3062-3084. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2025.2470726
- Dollinger, M., Crawford, N., Ajjawi, R., Bearman, M., & Tai, J. (2025). Caught in a loop? Investigating the interplay between time and emotions for university students. Teaching in Higher Education, 30(5), 1291-1303. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2025.2449642 (HERD Article of the year 2026)
- Gravett, K., Ajjawi, R., & O Shea, S. (2025). Topologies of belonging in the digital university. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 33(2), 597-611. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2023.2256342
- Nieminen, J. H., Dollinger, M., & Finneran, R. (2026). Becoming a disabled teacher: teacher placements as sites for identity formation. The Australian Educational Researcher, 53(1), 22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-025-00949-8
Most-cited Publications
Listed below are our most popular publications based on the number of citations as measured in the Web of Science in August 2026.
Artificial Intelligence
- Bearman, M., & Ajjawi, R. (2023). Learning to work with the black box: Pedagogy for a world with artificial intelligence. British Journal of Educational Technology, 54(5), 1160–1173. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13337 [175 citations]
- Bearman, M., Ryan, J. & Ajjawi, R. (2023). Discourses of artificial intelligence in higher education: a critical literature review. Higher Education, 86, 369–385. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00937-2 [252 citations]
Assessment
- Adachi, C., Tai, J., & Dawson, P. (2018). Academics’ perceptions of the benefits and challenges of self and peer assessment in higher education. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 43(2), 294–306, https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2017.1339775 [148 citations]
- Ajjawi, R., Tai, J., Huu Nghia, T. L., Boud, D., Johnson, L., & Patrick, C. J. (2019). Aligning assessment with the needs of work-integrated learning: the challenges of authentic assessment in a complex context. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 45(2), 304–316. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2019.1639613 [141 citations]
- Boud, D., & Soler, R. (2016). Sustainable assessment revisited. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 41(3), 400–413, https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2015.1018133 [324 citations]
- Dawson, P. (2017). Assessment rubrics: towards clearer and more replicable design, research and practice. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 42(3), 347–360, https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2015.1111294 [195 citations]
- Winstone, N. E., Boud, D. (2022). The need to disentangle assessment and feedback in higher education. Studies in Higher Education, 47(3), 656-667. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2020.1779687 [171 citations]
Evaluative Judgement
- Tai, J., Ajjawi, R., Boud, D., Dawson, P., & Panadero, E. (2018). Developing evaluative judgement: enabling students to make decisions about the quality of work. Higher Education, 76(3), 467–481, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-017-0220-3 [533 citations]
- Bearman, M., Tai, J., Dawson, P., Boud, D., & Ajjawi, R. (2024). Developing evaluative judgement for a time of generative artificial intelligence. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 49(6), 893-905, https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2024.2335321 [161 citations]
Feedback
- Ajjawi, R., & Boud, D. (2017). Researching feedback dialogue: an interactional analysis approach. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 42(2), 252–265, https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2015.1102863 [230 citations]
- Carless, D., & Boud, D. (2018). The development of student feedback literacy: enabling uptake of feedback. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 43(8), 1315–1325, https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2018.1463354 [1,522 citations]
- Dawson, P., Henderson, M., Mahoney, P., Phillips, M., Ryan, T., Boud, D., & Molloy, E. (2019). What makes for effective feedback: staff and student perspectives. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 44(1), 25–36, https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2018.1467877 [318 citations]
- Molloy, E., Boud, D., & Henderson, M. (2020). Developing a learning-centred framework for feedback literacy. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 45(4), 527–540. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2019.1667955 [396 citations]
Pedagogy & Research Methodologies
- Varpio, L., Ajjawi, R., Monrouxe, L. V., O’Brien, B. C., & Rees, C. E. (2017). Shedding the cobra effect: problematising thematic emergence, triangulation, saturation and member checking. Medical Education, 51(1), 40‐50. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.13124 [799 citations]
- Molloy, E., & Bearman, M. (2019). Embracing the tension between vulnerability and credibility: ‘intellectual candour’ in health professions education. Medical Education, 53(1), 32-41. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.13649 [160 citations]
All Publications
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