Learning Beyond Letter Grades: Exploring the Promise & Possibility of Assessment

12/01/15

TELE will offer a three-part Educause Learning Initiative Online Professional Development Opportunity

Part 1: November 5  |  1:00–2:30 p.m. ET  
Part 2: November 19  |  1:00–2:30 p.m. ET
Part 3: December 2  |  1:00–2:30 p.m. ET
Please join us for as many sessions as your schedule permits.  Arriving late and/or leaving early is understandable.  No need to attend all three sessions.

Where: Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center

Register Here (Registration is encouraged; walk-ins welcome.)
Open to all faculty and staff.

Why do so many schools use letter grades? What do they tell us and fail to tell us about the learners? What is the relationship between letter grades, student learning, and assessment? This three-week course will allow participants to consider different ways to augment or enhance the common letter grade system by designing a variety of formative assessment or feedback strategies. As such, we will examine the benefits and limitations of a myriad of options: peer assessment & workshopping, self-assessment, portfolio assessment, narrative assessment, authentic assessment, and competency-based assessment. As a way to develop a deeper understanding of the subject, you will be invited to examine a variety of real world examples of learning organizations that use or support these different assessment models in place of or in addition to a traditional letter grade system.
*Technology-Enhanced Learning & Engagement (TELE) Collaborative: CFE (Wade Pickren, Judith Ross-Bernstein), Library (Lis Chabot), ITS (Marilyn Dispensa, Matt Gorney, Tony Tabone, Mary Jo Watts)

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Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Laurie Wasik at wasik@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3734. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

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