“For those who want a thumbnail understanding, critical race theory is simply the study of how inequalities, particularly racial inequalities, can be reproduced over time," - Kimberlé Crenshaw nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthe…

A wonderful opportunity to remind people that a lot of “residency” #MedEd is based on William Halstead Who was a straight, single (when training) white guy who did a WHOLE BUNCH OF DRUGS (cocaine & morphine) to be able to exist within the model of - lengthy training - pyramidal

These higher ed teacher performance standards featured again in a morning newsletter. I have a real problem with defining teaching in such a way that only half of us (at the most) can ever be good enough teachers. uniteachingcriteria.edu.au/framework/indi…

Phillip Dawson You're confusing means and medians. Averages are affected by outliers. For example say you have 100 teachers in your faculty. 95 of them get the max score of 5. The others get 2. The average is ((95 *5) + (5*2))/100 = 4.85. 95% are above average.

Great to read the new publication with Dr Joanna Tai as one of the co-authors. Great to have more research about WIL placements and near-peer mentoring. doi.org/10.1186/s12909…

New publication alert! 🚨 Educationally authentic assessment: reframing authentic assessment in relation to students’ meaningful engagement By Kathleen M. Quinlan, Guadalupe Sellei and Wissia Fiorucci tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #HigherEd #AuthenticAssessment

Came back from leave to learn that our paper on policy requirements and restrictions of #Thesis by/with #publications in six countries 🇦🇺🇯🇵🇳🇿🇿🇦🇪🇸🇬🇧 has now been published. Thank you to our wonderful team🙏 doi.org/10.1080/136008…

#HigherEd aims to educate diverse and unique professionals, but assessment relies upon standardisation. Our new study with Mollie Dollinger and Rachel Finneran explores the lived tensions in how diverse students must 'fit in the box' of assessment 📦 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Kane Murdoch This sounds like a wonderful idea. I’m afraid we already know the solutions but lack the opportunities to implement these ideas systematically in higher ed. I’m thinking of flexible assessment à la Prof Sam Elkington, digital storytelling assessment à la Dr Pranit Anand SFHEA, MACS, FHERDSA…

Lovely to speak to Darlene McLennan & rest of the Australian #UDL Community of Practice this AM (their PM) about the ALTITUDE Charter & efforts of the huge #UniversalDesign community here to move towards more strategically embedding it in our institutions! atu.ie/altitude-chart…

The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW) is advertising two PhD scholarships to be based in University of Melbourne's Department of Social Work. findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/opportunity/13…

Taking what isn’t yours to create something new without giving credit, having permission, or considering the impact on others isn’t innovation or acting in the spirit of open. At the least it’s theft, at the worst, It’s colonization. Heather M. Ross 🇺🇦 mctoonish.com/blog/?p=1908

My department at Grinnell College is hiring a tenure-track sociology position in race and ethnicity, racisms, and racial formations. Please apply and be my colleague. Grinnell is highly selective liberal arts college that values research. Let me know if you have questions about

Inclusive assessment has become somewhat of an umbrella term. In our paper we discuss the need for context specific adjustments & share our global perspectives on the issues institutions face when implementing inclusive assessment. …epublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me… Dr Joanna Tai Vishna Devi Nadarajah

Priya Khanna Chris Roberts Derek Louey feel like a 🐟 in 💦 w/ this Q bc high stakes MCQ assessmt is all I’ve ever known in 🇺🇸 To motivate learning ‘a bunch of stuff’ (assuming it’s relevant), this has most value in UME before transition to clinical care. ROI from driving memorization of facts diminishes thereafter

Priya Khanna Chris Roberts Cory Rohlfsen Derek Louey No. It's a regressive step and is more about performative accountability than a thing else, IMO

Writing this paper was a delightful challenge - with it to get some of these ideas (and grumbles) out on paper! Thanks Prof. Gabrielle Finn & Vishna Devi Nadarajah strong women unite 💪

Came across a beautiful short piece expressing the precarity inherent in positionality statements by Flora Oswald. Awesome quote "outness cannot be a precondition for producing useful scientific knowledge" nature.com/articles/s4156…

Thanks Jo. Good to think about. Vulnerability is easier for some than others. How much ‘right’ do readers have to all this detail? Has to balance what the author is comfortable telling and what contributes to judging the quality of the work. Not a place for ‘tickboxes’