Potential topics

• How to get students to focus on feedback, not the letter or percentage grade
• What recent scholarship has to say about grades (e.g., the effectiveness of “ungrading”)
• Strategies for managing large volumes of grading
• Providing thoughtful, individualized feedback in large courses
• What to do when you just don’t know what to say about student work

Potential topics

• Defining “student success”—what do we mean when we talk about it?
• Success in a course versus success in relevant areas outside it
• Finding success in failure
• The relationship between short- and long-term success (e.g., within a course vs. over one’s college career)

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