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Critical thinking in the age of GenAI: Why do it?

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Critical thinking is a core goal of higher education, with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development citing it as ‘among the most important skills that young adults should...

Rethinking feedback literacy: Teaching engagement with AI-generated feedback

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Despite decades of research, helping students use feedback effectively remains one of the most persistent challenges in writing instruction. Teachers devote extensive time to commenting on student...

AI and education for Right Action: Exploring directions through possibilitarianism

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

In this blog post, we think about how artificial intelligence (AI) might open space(s) for Right Action by expanding individualistic human discernment, and by moving towards collective/communal...

BERA Bites, issue 13: Education & generative AI

BERA Bites

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) now sits at the heart of the everyday rhythms of schooling and higher education, affecting how we plan lessons, communicate with learners, assess work...

Research Intelligence Article of the Year Award 2025

This award recognises the highest quality and most original and impactful articles published in BERA’s magazine Research Intelligence. Guest editors of issues published in 2025 were invited to...

Reimagining homework with artificial intelligence in secondary education: Managing teachers’ workload and protecting students’ leisure

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

The role and challenge of homework Homework has long been contested in secondary education. Cooper et al. (2006) framed homework as a tool to consolidate learning. Dunatchik and Park (2022)...

Are we human? Redesigning higher education essay assessments to uphold academic integrity in the AI era

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Introduction The rise of accessible large language models (LLMs) has revolutionised higher education, enabling machines to mimic human-like text generation and exceed traditional benchmarks such...

Evaluating authentic assessments and academic integrity in the age of generative AI

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

The rapid evolution of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies, such as ChatGPT and Claude, is prompting urgent reflections across the education sector. While much of the early...

Secondary school teachers’ preparedness to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into their practice

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in education – ranging from large language models to adaptive learning platforms – raises pressing questions about teacher...

Surface certainty, knowledge substitution and the rise of the ‘shallow learner’

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT become embedded within higher education (HE), we must ask not only how they shape student practices but also how they shift our...

The BERA Blog: Highlights of 2025

BERA Blog end of year highlights

Snow-dusted salutations and tinsel-tinged tidings to all our readers, authors, curators and guest editors around the globe. In this, the BERA Blog’s tenth anniversary year, I look back over the...

A question of selfhood construction: Artificial intelligence and social injustice

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Placing selfhood construction at the centre of social justice provides a useful lens to view emerging ethical debates around Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) and beyond. Selfhood...