What If Grades Are Lying to Us? Rethinking Learning as Observable Behavior

In this episode of Social Learning Amplified, host Eric Mazur sits down with Dr. Jarek Janio, ESL professor and faculty coordinator at Santa Ana College and founder of the Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) Symposium, to unpack the case for treating learning as observable competency rather than inferring it from proxies like grades, attendance, or engagement. Eric and Jarek explore the difference between performance-based and product-based assessment, how ungraded and multiple-measures approaches can reduce bias in evaluation, and what it might mean to build a classroom — and a student-teacher relationship — around a shared, visible record of ability. Get Interrogating, Disrupting, and Reframing College Student Learning Outcomes: https://www.routledge.com/Interrogating-Disrupting-and-Reframing-College-Student-Learning-Outcomes/Janio/p/book/9781041194194