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Assessmen<\/strong>t & Feedback SIG Wednesday 24th November 14:00-15:30 (UK)<\/strong> <\/p>\n Abstract: Bios:<\/strong> Dr. Cait Hayward<\/strong> leads the research and development portfolio at the University of Michigan Center for Academic Innovation, with a focus on ensuring that projects are taking advantage of the vast amount of data available to them to inform design, iteration, and prioritization. She is responsible for managing the educational and operational research teams and provides data analysis, research design, and creative problem-solving to initiatives at all stages across Academic Innovation. Prior to her role at the Center for Academic Innovation, Cait co-founded and led the development of the GradeCraft platform. Her primary research areas are learning analytics, gameful pedagogy, and novel educational technologies.<\/p>\n Link to Recording<\/a> For an invite to this event or to be added to the Assessment & Feedback Special Interest Group mailing list please contact openTEL.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Assessment & Feedback SIG Wednesday 24th November 14:00-15:30 (UK) Presentations from Cait Hayward and August Evrard, Michigan University. Link to Recording Link to Slides Abstract: Letter grades have long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[103,102,64],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment-feedback-sig","tag-august-evrard","tag-cait-hayward","tag-michigan-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPresentations from Cait Hayward and August Evrard, Michigan University.
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\n<\/strong>Letter grades have long served as signaling mechanisms between an institution\u2019s faculty and its students, and making the Dean\u2019s List remains an aspiration of students on most American campuses.\u00a0 In this presentation, we offer three short talks with a common thread of student advantages and barriers.\u00a0 We first demonstrate that increased selectivity – the tendency of an institution to admit students with increasingly higher standardized test scores – is an important factor in the rise of undergraduate grades over the past decade.\u00a0 The findings allow us to refine measures of faculty-related grade inflation, and we introduce\u00a0grade susceptibility<\/em>, the conditional distribution of student grade earned as a function of incoming standardized test score, as a measure with broader potential application.\u00a0 We then pivot to a study of student grades in large STEM courses across multiple institutions that features an integer variable, a\u00a0systemic advantage index<\/em>, incorporating dimensions of birth sex, underrepresented minority status, family income, and first-generation college status.\u00a0 Across seven public US universities, students with high advantage index earn consistently higher grades than their low advantage counterparts, objective evidence that\u00a0corroborates the persistence of systemic inequities in American STEM education. We conclude with a current project that aims to identify particular courses where systemic advantages are most impactful on student grades, and share these patterns with instructors via a rich data report that highlights opportunities for potential pedagogical changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nProf. August E. (Gus) Evrard<\/strong> is a computational cosmologist and educational innovator at the University of Michigan. Author of the first algorithm to enable multi-fluid cosmological simulations of galaxy formation, Prof. Evrard’s astrophysical research aims to understand clusters of galaxies, the rarest and largest gravitationally bound systems in the universe.\u00a0 Named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012, his research is documented in over 280 refereed papers with more than 28,000 citations. Within Michigan\u2019s Center for Academic Innovation he leads two service-oriented projects used by many thousands of students each year: \u00a0Atlas offers visual summaries of the recent academic landscape for the Ann Arbor campus while Problem Roulette is a stress-free study zone that provides equal access to locally authored exam content.<\/p>\n
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