Firas Moosvi, PhD

@firas.moosvi.com

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Lecturer at UBC. Physics PhD, interested in Alternative Grading, STEM EDI initiatives, SoTL, learning analytics, science communication and data science! Website: https://Firas.Moosvi.com

Four adults posing for a picture after a Master defence presentation. From left to right: Dr. Silvia Bartolic (second reader), Serene Rodrigues (MA student!), Dr. Firas Moosvi (Co-Supervisor), and Dr. Marina Milner-Bolotin (Co-Supervisor).
On the COSC 111 final exam, I asked my students what they think they earned in the course (ignoring the syllabus) 25 overestimated by >5%, 29 underestimated by >5%, 53 were close enough, and 38 did not answer
New research from UMichigan analyzing 30M Canvas records “reveals widespread sequential bias and system-induced surname initial disparity in grading”.
Open book with the title “Effective Teaching in Large STEM classes” and Chapter 5: authentic and inclusive (summative) assessments by Firas Moosvi and Simon Bates
Screenshot of 1Password and GitHub using pass keys to sign in.
Question as part of a Canvas quiz for onboarding: "Records that you create as part of your job ________." - are your property - "Correct Answer" > are the property of the University - neither belong to you nor the University - "You Answered" > belong to both you and the University Clarification: Records that you create as part of your job are the property of the University. They do not belong to you.
Just a short video of West Kelowna forest fires burning and smouldering from our apartment in downtown Kelowna.
What if I have to miss a deadline because of a wedding, birthday, funeral, religious holiday, or personal event ? No problem! There’s not even any need to tell me, or ask for permission to miss deadlines. The course is designed to give you maximum flexibility: Every deadline has a 48 hour grace period that is automatically applied. There is no late penalty if you use the grace period You can use the grace period an unlimited amount of time in the course (though if it happens every week and for every assignment, I might check in with you and gently encourage you not to leave things to the last minute) If you miss a deadline by more than the grace period, the general course policy is that you will not be able to get full credit for it, and in many cases, may even get a 0 for it. In the cases of Tests, it is not possible to get partial credit, or complete it at times other than within the scheduled window. In some cases, I reserve the right to grant an extension or make alternate acco
Screenshot of GitHub’s attempt at rendering Jupyter notebook. There’s a red dialog box that says “Unable to render code block”. The file is 17.7 kB and only 595 lines.
Picture of the cover of a book titled Grading for Growth by David Clark and Robert Talbert.
Screenshot of Bluesky app on iOS with a red banner that says “Not enough resources” when loading the “Following” feed and messages below indicating the following deed is empty.
“Ungrading is not as simple as just removing grades. The word “ungrading" suggests that we need to do intentional, critical work to dismantle traditional and standardized approaches to assessment.”

Source: Jesse Stommel, https://www.jessestommel.com/ungrading-a-bibliography/
Slide with two tables side-by-side. The left table is a traditional course with the first column for course elements like: homework, labs, midterms, and finals. The second column is the weight (all empty at the moment) and the third column is “comments”. The idea is to fill this table out with a course live with audience participation and then transform it to use alternative grading on the right.