Program

Money in the (Test) Bank: AI, EdTech, and the Value of Grades

• Robin DeRosa (Executive Director, Open Education Network)

Introduction

• Welcome: Simon Bates (Associate Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning, UBC)
• Opening Remarks: Jon Beasley-Murray (French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, UBC)

Approaches to Alternative Grading: Table Discussions

Rethinking the Grade

• Tony Mays (Commonwealth of Learning), “Trust, AI, and Assessment”
• Pam Kalas (Zoology, UBC), “Four Years of ‘Binning’ (and Counting!)”
• Calla Zhang (Liberal Arts, Yorkville University), “Making Learning Visible: Growth over Performance in Liberal Arts Courses”
• Miranda Meents, Megan Barker, and Cassandra Pereira (Science/Biological Sciences, SFU), “Ungrading as a Tool in Your Teaching”
• Serene Rodrigues (Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of Science, UBC), “Instructor Experiences of Alternative Grading at UBC”

Alternative Grading at UBC: Lightning Talks

• Richard Price (Political Science), “Lessons from the Experience of a Pass/Fail Course”
• Bronwen Tate (Creative Writing), “Alternative Grading Experiments in Creative Writing”
• Jerry Achar (Earth and Ocean Sciences), “Triangulated Student Performance Review”
• Jessica Kalra (Pharmaceutical Sciences), “Labour-Based Grading in Undergraduate Science Courses”
• David Oliver, Marcia Graves, and Kirsty McIntyre (Microbiology and Immunology), “Specifications Grading in a Molecular Microbiology Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience”

Being Alternatively Graded

• Jasmine Choi (BA in Interdisciplinary Studies)
• Jared Khalifa (BA in Interdisciplinary Studies)
• Liam Murray (BSc in Biochemistry)
• Dave Nabi (BA in Urban Studies)
• Shayla Raine (Masters in Occupational Therapy)
• and others, TBC

Alternative Grading and the Institution

• Gage Averill (Provost and Vice President, Academic, UBC)
• Clare Haru Crowston (Dean, Faculty of Arts, UBC)
• Wendy Norman (Director, Center for Accessibility, UBC)
• Jackie Stewart (Associate Dean, Academic, Faculty of Science, UBC)
• Bronwen Tate (Undergraduate Chair, School of Creative Writing, and member of the Arts Curriculum Committee, UBC)
• Timothy Taylor (School of Creative Writing and President, Faculty Association, UBC)
• Jay Wickenden (Associate Head of Undergraduates, Department of Chemistry, UBC)

Lessons in Trust: Two Provocations and a Conversation

• Asao Inoue (Arizona State University)
• Jesse Stommel (University of Denver)

Student Choice, Voice, and Motivation

• Louise Oliver (Liberal Arts, Yorkville University), “Moving from Judgment to Student Dialogue: Student Voice, Choice, and Assessment in the Age of AI”
• Katja Thieme and Michael Schandorf (Journalism, Writing, and Media, UBC), Specifications Grading and Epistemic Trust: Teaching Writing, Communication, and Media Studies
• Yumiko Murai, Anna Zi Lin, and Mitra Nikimaleki (Education, SFU), “Supporting Epistemic Agency in Post-Secondary classrooms”
• María Eugenia de Luna (Modern Languages, University of the Fraser Valley), Between Grades and Learning: Process, Agency, and Trust in the Age of AI
• Claire Hay and Michael Corman (University of the Fraser Valley), “Reflections on Adopting Alternative Grading at a Teaching Intensive university”

The Technologies of Alternative Grading: Lightning Talks

• Jeffrey Meyers (Criminology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University), “Building Student Interest and Rapport in Online Teaching Using Oral Exams and Incentivized Office Hours Attendance”
• Kaitlyn Watson (Transforming Inquiry into Learning and Teaching, SFU) et. al., “Alternative Grading in Fully Online Courses: Preliminary Findings from a Scoping Review”
• Jane-Frances Agbu (Commonwealth of Learning), “Lessons from Commonwealth of Learning Practice”
• Alex Samur (Teaching and Curriculum Development, Langara College), “Not Ready to Rethink Grades? PAIRR as a Bridge to Alternative Assessment”
• Carellin Brooks (Forestry and Environmental Stewardship/Wood Science, UBC), “How Did it Go? Self-Grading Experiments in a Small First-Year Academic Writing Course”
• Firas Moosvi (Computer Science, UBC), “Alternative Grading at Scale using ORCA”

Beyond Grading

• Celeste Leander and Maia Palka (Botany/Zoology, UBC), “How Ungrading Increases Student Agency”
• Erin Woodford (Indigenous Studies, University of Lethbridge), “Building Learning-Continuums for Student Self-Assessment”
• Miranda Burgess (English Language and Literatures, UBC), “Content and its Discontents”
• Hessam Dehghani (Asian Studies, UBC), “Decentering the Grade, Decentering the Standard”
• Donna Chowdhury (Business Administration, Yorkville University), “Decentering the Grade”

What Next? Roundtable Session and General Discussion

• Kristjan Bondesson (California State University)
• Robin DeRosa (Executive Director, Open Education Network)
• Asao Inoue (Arizona State University)
• Tara Ivanochko (Associate Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning, and Academic Director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, UBC)
• Jako Olivier (Commonwealth of Learning)
• and others, TBC