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Professor David Carless


PROFESSOR DAVID CARLESS
Professor of Educational Assessment at the Faculty of Education
University of Hong Kong

Professor David Carless needs no introduction. He is Professor of Educational Assessment at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, and a Principal Fellow of Advance HE. He is recognised as a global expert in assessment and feedback, and as one of the most cited scholars in feedback research in higher education. His research focuses on learning-oriented assessment and feedback literacy, including sustainable feedback processes and the dialogic use of exemplars to illustrate quality work. His signature publications include Excellence in University Assessment (Routledge, 2015) and Designing Effective Feedback Processes in Higher Education, co-authored with Naomi Winstone (Routledge, 2019). He sits on the editorial boards of Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education and Innovations in Education and Teaching International, and has been an invited keynote speaker at institutions including Cambridge and Maynooth.


Assuring the validity of assessment outcomes is one of the most intractable challenges currently facing the university sector. I’m delighted to be part of the Advisory group working with QAA in developing a cogent set of guidelines.