Joshua Weidlich
Assistant Professor of Digital Higher Education
University of Zurich · Zurich University of Teacher Education
About
I study how digital technologies and artificial intelligence are reshaping teaching, learning, and assessment in higher education.
I am a DIZH Bridge Professor (Assistant Professor with tenure track) at the University of Zurich and the Zurich University of Teacher Education. My work brings together research on feedback, learning analytics, and AI-enhanced learning environments. I am particularly interested in how students process the feedback they receive, and how they can learn effectively when AI is part of the learning environment.
- Feedback and feedback literacy
- Assessment validity
- Learning with generative AI
- Learning analytics
- Research methodology
Publications
Selected publications, newest first. The complete list is on Google Scholar. If you cannot access a paper, write to me and I will send you the PDF.
Updates
Short summaries of recent papers.
Teacher, peer, or AI? What students prefer is not what helps them most
In a blinded field experiment, students rated peer and AI feedback more favourably, but their work improved most after teacher feedback.
ChatGPT in education: an effect in search of a cause
Meta-analyses report that ChatGPT improves learning. We audited the underlying experiments and found that few of them allow that conclusion.
Detailed automated feedback helps, and feedback literacy shapes how it is received
A field experiment with 196 teacher education students compared simple and highly informative automated feedback.
Measuring student feedback literacy in three languages
The refined SFLI measures feedback attitudes and feedback practices with 22 items, or 11 in the short form, in German, English and Turkish.
Earlier posts
SFLI
The Student Feedback Literacy Instrument is a free, validated questionnaire that measures how students engage with feedback. It comes as a full version with 22 items and a short form with 11, in English, German and Turkish.
Contact
Institute of Education, University of Zurich
Kantonsschulstrasse 3, 8001 Zurich