Discipline-based STEM Education Research Webinar: Eric Mazur

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Why is it that stellar students sometimes fail in the workplace while dropouts succeed? One reason is that most, if not all, of our current assessment practices are inauthentic. Just as the lecture focuses on the delivery of information to students, so does assessment often focus on having students regurgitate that same information back to the instructor. Consequently, assessment fails to focus on the skills that are relevant in life in the 21st century. Assessment has been called the \"hidden curriculum\" as it is an important driver of students' study habits. Unless we rethink our approach to assessment, it will be very difficult to produce a meaningful change in education.

Part of the Discipline-based STEM Education Research Webinars (January to June 2021 on Wednesdays 4pm GMT)

These webinars are a Cardiff University/UCL collaboration, sponsored by the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

All events will be hosted via zoom