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Professors' reflections on their experiences with 'ungrading' spark renewed interest in the student-centered assessment practice.

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A flexible approach that can be applied to learning contexts to varying degrees, ungrading promotes student learning, risk-taking, and critical thinking. This approach to assessment addresses the power dynamics and inequities baked into both higher education and the grading process. In this session, participants will learn about some of the research on grading and see one model of ungrading in action. By the end of the session, participants will have expanded their knowledge of the dynamics that underpin the ungrading approach and will have considered how or if ungrading can work in their own instructional contexts.

Professors' reflections on their experiences with 'ungrading' spark renewed interest in the student-centered assessment practice.

Without much critical examination, teachers accept they have to grade, students accept being graded, and none of us spend enough time thinking about the why, when, and whether of grades.

The Case Against Grades - Alfie Kohn

A little over one year ago, I make a decisive break with traditional percentage-based grading systems and embraced specifications grading…

While we in higher education keep using it, our grading system is broken, argues Linda B. Nilson, and she offers some concrete ways to fix it.

Hindsight is 20/20, but sometimes you just have to deal with things being blurry for awhile.

...and I'm never going back.

Why Student-Centered Learning Needs An Alternative Credentialing Mechanism This is the sixth in a series of blog posts I’m writing based on my own experiences with student-centered, open, peer, or

This past semester I tried contract grading for the first time. The class was a collaborative project, and I wanted grades to be less important than getting the collaboration done. I followed the l…

At one point in my life I took a class that had a mandatory fail policy. This meant that a line would be drawn below which certain cumulative grades would be designated as failing. Essentially, someone would fail.  This policy was very challenging for me for many reasons. As a Black female it compounded the …