What If We Stopped Using Grades and Exams?
Join us as we explore how assessment shapes power dynamics, motivation and learning, and what can happen when trust, reflection and responsibility take its place.
2000 Frederiksberg
Sted: SP107
Educational Development and Quality
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Grades and exams have long been part of university life. They document academic achievement, but they do more than measure what students have learned. They can also influence what students focus on, how they study and what motivates them.
This raises a bigger question: How does the constant prospect of being assessed shape the balance of power in the classroom? And what happens when assessment is replaced by an approach based more on trust, reflection and responsibility?
At this joint CBS Library Forum and EDQ event, we explore what university teaching can look like when grades and traditional exams take a back seat.
What happens when you teach differently?
Associate Professor Arnold Knott from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) will open the event by sharing his experience of taking a different approach to assessment over the past three years.
More than 500 students have taken part in his classes so far. He will discuss how students responded to teaching that puts greater emphasis on reflection, motivation and responsibility for their own learning.
Different perspectives on grade-free teaching
The talk will be followed by a panel discussion facilitated by Camilla Falk Rønne Nissen and Varia Christie, learning consultants from the CBS Educational Development and Quality team.
Joining Arnold Knott on the panel will be Professor Annemette Kjærgaard from the Department of Management, Society and Communication at CBS. Her research has explored how grade-free teaching affects student motivation, well-being, and academic performance.
The panel will also include students with first-hand experience of grade-free teaching: William Clay Aksenberg, who is pursuing a bachelor of science in Engineering (Electrical Engineering) at DTU, and a CBS student to be announced.
Join the discussion
Are grades and exams indispensable to university education, or is it time to rethink their role?
Whether you are a student, teacher or simply curious about how assessment shapes learning, join us for an afternoon of ideas, experiences and discussion about what happens when we challenge one of the basic assumptions of university education.
