Department Seminar
Upcoming Seminar
Aligning Teaching Values and Assessment Practices with Scalable Specifications Grading
Dr. Renée Link, UC Irvine
November 13, 2024
4:00pm-5:00pm in HSCI-103
Assessing student work to assign final course letter grades has depended traditionally on points-based grading systems, often involving curves. This approach to grading in the college classroom is not ideal as it places emphasis on the extrinsic motivational factor of accumulating points rather than the intrinsic motivation of learning and meeting course learning outcomes. Although specifications grading has been used across numerous disciplines to support student-centered learning, examples of specifications grading often focus on smaller lecture courses. We first created a specifications grading system for one of three courses in an organic chemistry laboratory series and then scaled the grading format to support the full series of courses, with over 1,000 students enrolled in each course. After the success of specifications grading in the lab course, we also implemented a specifications grading system in a flipped, summer, online organic chemistry lecture course. This talk will describe the specifications grading system used in each course and how the system was perceived by the instructors, students, and graduate teaching assistants.
Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm. All are invited to attend.
Seminar Coordinator
For information and suggestions about our Department Seminar series, please contact the seminar coordinator:
Dr. Fangyuan Tian
Fangyuan.Tian@csulb.edu
Schedule
The following schedule is for Fall 2024.
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| November 13 | Aligning Teaching Values and Assessment Practices with Scalable Specifications Grading | Dr. Renée Link, UC Irvine |
| November 20 | Engineering better scaffolds for improved healing of bone defects | Donghui Zhu, SUNY Stony Brook |
| December 4 | Computational Protein Design of Immunogens for Neurodegenerative Diseases | Aina Adekunle, CSU Dominguez Hills |
| December 11 | The "Rippled" Beta-Sheet: An Old Theory by Pauling and Corey Inspires New Biomaterial | Evgenij Raskatov, UC Santa Cruz |
Previous Seminars
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| November 6 | Discovery and development of synthetic transformations for applications in medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, and natural products synthesis | Dr. Jozef Stec, Marshall B. Ketchum University |
| October 24 | Conceptually New Clusteroluminescence (CL) Emergent from Clusterization of Non-emissive Molecules | Dr. Ben Zhong Tang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
| October 16 | "Click & Clip" Chemistry: Structure-Activity Relationships in Ylidenenorbornadienes | Dr. Daniel Bercovici, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo |
| October 9 | Quantitative Analysis of Protein-Ligand Interactions and Lipid Bilayer Modifications using the Quartz Crystal Microbalance | Dr. Malkiat S. Johal, Pomona College |
| October 2 | How on earth did I get here? One man's path from school to industrial entrepreneur | Dr. Jean-Luc Fraikin, Spectradyne Inc. |
| September 30 | Hydrogen-Atom Transfer at Metal-Organic Framework-Liquid Interfaces | Dr. Hyunho Noh, University of Oklahoma |
| September 25 | Uncovering new pathways of cytoskeletal regulation relevant for neuronal function | Dr. Elena Grintsevich, CSU Long Beach |
| September 18 | Taking your Chemistry Degree into the Aerospace Industry | Dr. Michael Kahr, CSU Long Beach alumnus |
| September 11 | The Carbonyl-Isocyanide Relationship and Beyond | Dr. Joshua Figueroa, UC San Diego |
| September 4 | Programmable DNA-templated metal nanoclusters: science and emerging biophotonics applications | Dr. Stacy Copp, UC Irvine |
The Seminar Archive has Department Seminars from previous semesters.
The Department Seminar is supported by The Allergan Foundation.
