This year, the Center for Teaching and Learning’s popular conversation series about generative AI returns with a special focus on assessment and the human.
This series is curated by Max Gray, digital scholarship librarian at Raynor Library. This CTL Conversation Series is co-sponsored by the Explorer Challenge Award organized by the Center for Data Ethics on campus.
Two events will be held in October:
- “What Are Grades For?”: A CTL Conversation on AI, Assessment and the Human
- Monday, Oct. 5, from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in CTL 330B
- Is grading ripe for automation by AI, or does grading serve purposes beyond efficiency and evaluation? Join colleagues to explore the role of grades in student learning and consider how AI may influence assessment practices in higher education.
- “AI as a Performance Evaluator”: A CTL Conversation on AI, Assessment and the Human
- Tuesday, Oct. 13, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. via Teams.
- As AI becomes increasingly incorporated into administrative processes, what role should it play in faculty performance evaluation? This discussion will examine emerging uses of AI in evaluation, along with the opportunities, limitations and ethical considerations for higher education.
Some questions to be sought out are:
- How can we assess human creativity and critical thinking in this moment?
- How can we assess and evaluate each other humanely in an age of automation?
- How may Pope Leo’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, guide what we seek to assess for and how we assess for it?
The CTL will continue thinking across practical and theoretical approaches to teaching and learning in Jesuit higher education in the age of AI. This year, the CTL will do so with a special orientation toward practical problems of assessment in light of the philosophical visions of the human, humanity and humanism described in Magnifica Humanitas.
