Academic Integrity through Assessment Design with Mark Glynn
Today’s conversation centers on how to make assessments more “cheat-proof” and authentic, so as to work on the prevention of academic dishonesty rather than “catching” students cheating after the f…
Alternative Strategies for Assessment and Grading - Duke Learning Innovation & Lifetime Education
Research shows that grades are often not a good reflection of student learning and growth, and that being graded can be stressful for students. In addition, many traditional grading practices ...
Building Better Rubrics: Empowering Learners Through Effective Rubric Design - Dr. Catlin Tucker
Why should teachers use rubrics to assess student work? Rubrics are valuable assessment tools that provide clear and transparent expectations about what constitutes quality work. Rubrics identify specific criteria relevant to the assignment, along with corresponding levels of performance that allow for more precise grading. Using rubrics helps teachers stay focused during the grading process […]
Mastery Assessment with Eden Tanner - Intentional Teaching
On today’s episode, I talk with Eden Tanner about her experiment with mastery assessment. Eden is an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Mississippi. Eden had been changing up her grading practices for a few seme...
⿸ I just saved myself an hour and a half using ChatGPT to convert my rubric.
👩💻 A lot of teachers think that because AI chatbots are weird with math that anything that touches the "mathy" realm is going to be funky, and as a result, many don't even touch spreadsheets.
⏫ I uploaded an old rubric that I didn't like and wanted to align it to a more equitable 4-point scale (see Joe Feldman's Grading for Equity).
⏱ In a matter of seconds it rearranged my rubric and categorized it exactly as I hoped in an exportable format *CUE ANGELS SINGING FROM ON HIGH*
🔁 But I wasn't done - Since Google Assignments wouldn't import it (the formatting wasn't right), I asked it to rearrange the same information into a spreadsheet that matched Google's needs for uploading a rubric. 8 seconds later I had a perfectly formatted rubric.
🏋️♀️ In the past, I might have given up on a seemingly small project like this when the reality hit me of how long it would take to parse through all the ideas, find the right language, and then get it into the right format on spreadsheets. Now it was literally a 2 minute process, most of which was me figuring out the language I needed to explain what I wanted.
🧠 Consider how important it is that I might have given up on a more equitable practice because I got overwhelmed with what it would take to make the switch. This is one of the areas that's really easy for critics to gloss over: AI combined with thoughtful practice can increase opportunities for students to succeed and for teachers to help them do so.
#AIinEducation #StudentSuccess #ProfessionalDevelopment #Equity #Grading | 21 comments on LinkedIn
Beyond Hand Raising: Rethinking Class Participation - The K. Patricia Cross Academy
Class participation has long been a hallmark of higher education, often used to assess student engagement and learning. However, traditional participation grading—primarily measuring how often students speak in class and assigning a point value to it—fails to capture the full spectrum of meaningful contributions made by learners.
Seven Questions Through the Lens of Adult Development Theory
In a recent episode of Claire Pedrick MCC's The Coaching Inn podcast, Dumi Magadlela PhD PCC shared insights from Chapter 8 of his book, Ubuntu Coaching. During his conversation with Claire, he introduced seven self-reflection questions designed to help us navigate life’s complexities and challenges
Bite-Sized Inclusive Teaching Practices | Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence | University of Illinois Chicago
The six categories of inclusive teaching strategies are (as shown above) Belonging, Relationships, Transparency, Structure Welcoming, and the Wild Card.
The Accessible and Inclusive Design Conference was held in July and August 2025, hosted by The Training, Learning, and Development Community. Recordings for that event can be found here.
I'm Leon Furze, and in this free PD video, I walk through the features of both the free and paid versions of ChatGPT. From Study Mode to Deep Research, I explain how educators can get the most from the tool. Subscribe for more videos throughout August.
