TY - GEN
T1 - Software Support for "A's for All"
AU - Garcia, Dan
AU - McMahon, Connor
AU - Garcia, Yuan
AU - West, Matthew
AU - Zilles, Craig
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Owner/Author.
PY - 2022/6/1
Y1 - 2022/6/1
N2 - The SIGCSE-MEMBERS mailing list of the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education is the main forum for educators worldwide to discuss computing education research, pedagogy, and curriculum. In early 2022 it was abuzz with several connected movements: growth mindset, proficiency (aka mastery) learning, grading for equity, and specifications grading. Each of these is an important step toward the Holy Grail: A's for All (as time and interest allow); the "A"line doesn't move, but every student should be given an opportunity to achieve proficiency and earn it, as long as they are willing to put in the time and effort it might take. The mantra is not "fixed time, variable learning", but "fixed learning, variable time". Many of us have been associated with this movement for quite some time, and it is only now that the software, curriculum, and policies have evolved to the state that we are ready to demonstrate how it works "at scale". The goal of this demo is to highlight the software infrastructure required for educators to achieve it in their courses and institutions; this is associated with the workshop Achieving "A's for All (as time and interest allow)".
AB - The SIGCSE-MEMBERS mailing list of the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education is the main forum for educators worldwide to discuss computing education research, pedagogy, and curriculum. In early 2022 it was abuzz with several connected movements: growth mindset, proficiency (aka mastery) learning, grading for equity, and specifications grading. Each of these is an important step toward the Holy Grail: A's for All (as time and interest allow); the "A"line doesn't move, but every student should be given an opportunity to achieve proficiency and earn it, as long as they are willing to put in the time and effort it might take. The mantra is not "fixed time, variable learning", but "fixed learning, variable time". Many of us have been associated with this movement for quite some time, and it is only now that the software, curriculum, and policies have evolved to the state that we are ready to demonstrate how it works "at scale". The goal of this demo is to highlight the software infrastructure required for educators to achieve it in their courses and institutions; this is associated with the workshop Achieving "A's for All (as time and interest allow)".
KW - assessment
KW - communities of practice
KW - pedagogy
KW - scalable
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U2 - 10.1145/3491140.3528260
DO - 10.1145/3491140.3528260
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85132172543
T3 - L@S 2022 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale
SP - 475
EP - 476
BT - L@S 2022 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 9th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L@S 2022
Y2 - 1 June 2022 through 3 June 2022
ER -