Spring 2026 Schedule

Title: Kicking Off the Semester - Concerns, Celebrations & Brainstorming

Description: Conversation and Planning

Title: Debriefing MATH 1100

Description: In Fall 2025, we tried a few new things in Math 1100.  First, we implemented a new assessment framework that added multiple-choice skills tests that students could have one retest on, reduced midterm exams, and added "practice synthesis questions" completed during lab.  Also, we rethought some of the review material at the beginning of the semester, adding a trigonometry day and an emphasis on "problem starting".  I'll discuss the details, and the data we were able to gather.  

POSTPONED DUE TO TRAVEL COMPLICATIONS

Title: Students playing professor: A paradigm for open-AI assessments

Description: During the Fall 2025 semester, I conducted open-AI quizzes in my Data Structures and Algorithms course. The framework: Students were asked to design exam-level problems (subject to certain parameters) using prompt engineering and critical parsing of AI outputs. This talk will explore how the semester unfolded, including discussions of my initial motivations and concerns, how I taught prompt engineering, student learning outcomes, and what I learned along the way. 

Description: Jill Mastrocola will be leading a discussion on student note-taking, including ways to scaffold and support the process. She will pay attention to techniques such as skeleton notes, but the discussion is open to any methods or ideas people have tried or want to troubleshoot.