AHE Conference Highlights 2023

We welcomed over 280 delegates from 20 different countries at the AHE Conference 2023 and we are delighted to share a selection of the presentations and delegate feedback comments from the conference with you.

Is authentic assessment preparing students for the digital world?
Rola Ajjawi
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Juuso Henrik Nieminen
The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Margaret Bearman
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Making Teaching and Learning Visible: How openly discussing new teaching and assessment approaches increased student engagement and learning
Isabela Darcie
University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Robert Morris Gray
University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Managing institutional change of enterprise assessment systems: Challenging assumptions
Alex Steel
UNSW, Sydney, Australia
Ishan Kolhatkar
Inspera Assessment, Oslo, Norway
Factors influencing assessment in higher education: a social realist analysis of practice during and beyond emergency teaching and learning
Kershree Padayachee, Mapula Matimolane, Danie de Klerk, Nicholas West, Laura Dison, Shirra Moch
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

An Exercise in Constructive Alignment: A Bespoke Undergraduate Research Programme Designed to Assess Students Development Throughout the Process (Not Just at the End)
Paul McDermott, Leoni Palmer, Andrew Beekman, Arasu Ganesan, Richard Hatley, Simon MacDonald
University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Don’t fear the robot: future-authentic assessment and generative artificial intelligence
Phillip Dawson
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

Delegate Feedback Comments

Brilliant keynote yesterday this will stick with me I was pleasantly surprised at the Assessment in Higher Education conference 2023 how much I was encouraged to consider what I feel rather what I think. Lovely to be reminded that feelings matter dash our feelings matter we’re not robots (yet). 

Finally a chance to sit down and reflect on the Assessment in Higher Education conference 2023. Fantastic few days engaging with brilliant minds. And a platform to present our research to an incredibly supportive audience. 

Had a great time at my first ever Assessment in Higher Education conference 2023 thanks to everyone for sharing their expertise opinions and experiences in such an open way -have left feeling inspired and full of ideas. 

Hunt the most amazing time at the Assessment in Higher Education conference 2023 got to catch up with people I met last year as well as making some fabulous new contacts. Even more happy with incredibly supportive and developmental feedback on my presentation. this community is awesome. 

First time in the UK, first presentation experience at the Assessment in Higher Education conference 2023 and the first time using Twitter for academic purpose. Is a great to meet lots of great minds and ‘walking references’. Stay tuned, stay active in assessment and feedback. 

Thank you to everyone who came to my session today, participated practically and offered ideas for the way forward. All of you have motivated me to continue working on my assessment and feedback research! 

Brilliant couple of days at my first Assessment in Higher Education conference 2023 so many ideas and provocations, glad I’ve got a week off to reflect on it all! Can’t wait for my next one. 

We are on our way home after presenting at and attending the Assessment in Higher Education conference 2023. We are looking forward to sharing with our [own university colleagues] the outstanding examples of assessment practise we heard about during the last two days. 

It was an honour to present at the Assessment in Higher Education conference 2023 will be among such inspiring academics and deep thinkers. I hope I can make it again in a couple of years but in the meantime I look forward to staying in touch virtually. 

Big thanks to all at the Assessment in Higher Education conference 2023 I was a first timer and it was as brilliant as promised some excellent sessions and I met some thoroughly lovely people, sorry assessment changemakers and firestarters. 

Another inspiring Assessment in Higher Education conference 2023 so good to meet up with everyone again. Massive thanks to all the organisers. I’ll be back next year. 

Thoroughly enjoyed my first Assessment in Higher Education conference 2023! Final reflective thought: I saw colleagues from different disciplines academic and educational development EAP etc but fellow learning developers where are you? 

Thank you so much Assessment in Higher Education conference 2023, what a blast! It was so wonderful to catch up with old friends and meet up with new ones! A lot to digest dash how much can you learn about assessment over two days?!