CLA Day of Teaching and Learning

Marsha C. Lovett is Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University. In addition, she is Teaching Professor of Psychology and former director of the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation. Lovett leads a team of teaching consultants, learning engineers, designers, data scientists, and technologists to help instructors create meaningful and demonstrably effective educational experiences – both in-person and online. In her research, Lovett has published over 50 articles on learning and instruction, conducted in a variety of classroom contexts. Her passion for combining teaching and research is exemplified in the book How Learning Works, which has been translated into multiple languages (Chinese, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Arabic) and is now in its second edition with the new subtitle 8 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching. Lovett has also created several innovative, educational technologies to promote student learning and metacognition, including StatTutor and the Learning Dashboard, and she has developed and/or evaluated online courses in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. A theme running throughout Lovett’s work is leveraging research-based design and data-informed iteration to enhance teaching practices and student outcomes.

Asao B. Inoue is Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. He was the 2019 Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Among his many articles and chapters on writing assessment, race, and racism, his article, “Theorizing Failure in U.S. Writing Assessments” in Research in the Teaching of English, won the 2014 CWPA Outstanding Scholarship Award. His co-edited collection, Race and Writing Assessment (2012), won the 2014 NCTE/CCCC Outstanding Book Award for an edited collection. His book, Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing for a Socially Just Future (2015) won the 2017 NCTE/CCCC Outstanding Book Award for a monograph and the 2015 CWPA Outstanding Book Award. He also has published a co-edited collection, Writing Assessment, Social Justice, and The Advancement of Opportunity (2018), and a book, Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom (2019 & 2021). All author royalties for his latest book, Above the Well: An Antiracist Argument from A Boy of Color (2021) go to the Asao and Kelly Inoue Antiracist Teaching Endowment at their alma mater, Oregon State University. The endowment supports antiracist teaching and research by funding a conference and various scholarships for secondary and post-secondary teachers.