In this interactive session with special guest Josh Eyler, we'll use the history of grades as a lens to think together about some of the most urgent current concerns with traditional grades, including "grade inflation" narratives, new questions raised by AI, measurement fallacies, and more. From there, we'll explore some of the alternative grading models faculty have been using to combat these issues and consider ways to make both small and large shifts in our current grading practices.

Lunch will be provided.

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Joshua Eyler, Ph.D. is Senior Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning and Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Mississippi. He previously worked on teaching and learning initiatives at Columbus State University, George Mason University, and Rice University. A sought-after speaker for his expertise about the science of learning and about compassion in education, especially in connection with students, grades, and mental health, he has spoken at college and universities across the country, including Yale University, the University of Texas, the University of Virginia, and Johns Hopkins University.

Eyler is the author of Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students and What We Can Do About It, an indictment of the grading system in American schools and colleges―and a blueprint for how we can change it, and the acclaimed book How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching, which in 2019 Book Authority named one of the “100 Best Education Books of All Time”. Called a “splendid repository of ways to rethink how we teach college” by the Los Angeles Review of Books, it was named a “Book of the Year” in the Chicago Tribune.