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SUMMARY:lunch&LEARN: Investigating the use of oral exams in large-enrollme
 nt engineering courses
DTSTART:20240523T121500
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DESCRIPTION:Curt Schurgers\nOral exams\, i.e.\, one-on-one interview-style
  questioning by an instructor\, are powerful tools for assessing conceptua
 l mastery because of their adaptive dialogic nature. Additionally\, beyond
  merely measuring understanding\, they have the potential to actively shap
 e students' learning strategies\, foster reflection on learning and provid
 e instructors with unique insights\, making them invaluable components of 
 pedagogical practice. However\, concerns regarding validity and bias\, but
  especially scalability to large class sizes often limits their adoption.
  \n\nIn this lunch&LEARN session\, Curt Schurgers will share the results 
 of a recent three-year NSF-funded study at the University of California\, 
 San Diego\, in which a multi-PI team investigated the use of oral exams in
  large-enrollment engineering courses as a complement to other assessment 
 approaches.\n\nHe will discuss the benefits of oral exams and their impact
 s on student performance and student motivation. He will also provide gene
 ral insights\, implementation strategies and various practical approaches 
 on how to overcome the scaling issue.\n\nAbout the speaker: Curt Schurgers
  is a Teaching Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Uni
 versity of California\, San Diego. His focus is on undergraduate course de
 velopment\, active learning/flipped classrooms\, engineering pedagogy\, an
 d research experiences for undergraduate students. He also serves as the F
 aculty Director of the Envision Maker Studio and co-directs Engineers for 
 Exploration (E4E)\, a program in which undergraduates tackle real-world en
 gineering design challenges in exploration and conservation\, and create t
 echnologies in collaboration with ecologists\, archaeologists and other sc
 ientists. He received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering f
 rom the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and his Ph.D. from the Un
 iversity of California\, Los Angeles.\n\n\nNote: This event is hybrid and 
 open to anyone who teaches at EPFL. 
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