Alternative Grading
February 11, 2025
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Speaker
Kevin Lin
- Date: Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
- Time: 12 pm -1 pm PST |1-2 pm MST | 2-3 pm CST | 3-4 pm EST | 11 am- 12 pm AKST | 10-11 am HI
- Registration Required: Zoom Registration Link
- About: Mr. Lin will reflect on his experiences with alternative grading practices that better represent the learning that students achieve over time, producing more equitable outcomes by changing the way we determine final grades. Moreover, alternative grading also has the potential to empower students by making space for creative student work that might not otherwise thrive in a points-based grading ecosystem. But grading policies on their own often aren’t enough—at least not in the grade-focused culture at many institutions—so he'll also share some of the challenges he's faced and how he works toward better relationships between students, educators, and grades.
- Our presenter: Kevin Lin (he/him) is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He leads instructional innovation in data programming and data structures with a focus on empowering students to redesign computing problems and artifacts. Lin received his MS in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where he coordinated the teaching and delivery of very large-scale undergraduate CS courses to over 1,000 students per semester.
- Accommodations: ASL and CART provided; Zoom captions enabled. For other accommodation requests please contact Eric at ericwt@uw.edu
- Sponsored by the Alliance for Identity Inclusive Computing Education (AiiCE), National Science Foundation grant #EES 2118453. Any questions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the presenter(s), author(s), and/or participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the federal government.