Date & time: May 5, 2022, from 12 to 13:30 PM PST
Location: CWAP 2916 or Zoom, lunch box will be provided for the in-person participants, please let us know in the registration form.
Registration: Here
In “The Trouble with Rubrics”, Alfie Kohn writes: “Research shows three reliable effects when students are graded: They tend to think less deeply, avoid taking risks, and lose interest in the learning itself.” Getting students to focus on learning instead of grades seems like a daunting and insurmountable task. But who can blame them? Our systems, structures, and policies are all centred around grades and the fallacies of their inherent “fairness”. In this interactive session, we will share our experiences of how we refocused students’ attention on rich, high-quality feedback instead of grades. Examples from a biology laboratory course, a science writing seminar course, and data science lecture-based courses will be presented. We will also discuss the challenges and opportunities of the various approaches, and facilitate a discussion on how we can start working on broader structural changes to recentre higher education on learning, rather than grades.
Moderator: Patrick Culbert, Associate Professor of Teaching, Faculty of Forestry
Presenters:
- Dr. Caitlin Donnelly, Lecturer, Department of Botany and Vantage College, UBC Vancouver
- Dr. Marcia Graves, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UBC Vancouver
- Dr. Celeste Leander, Professor of Teaching, Departments of Botany and Zoology; Academic Director, First Year Experience
- Dr. Firas Moosvi, Lecturer, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, and Statistics Department, Faculty of Science, UBC Okanagan
- Dr. Jaclyn Stewart, Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Chemistry; Associate Dean Academic, Faculty of Science
Workshop Slides: Click here to view or download
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