Ungrading

Grading for Growth Toward more humane, authentic, and trustworthy ways to evaluate student work Robert Talbert, Ph.D. Grand Valley State University 27 July 2023 Contact: Robert Talbert -- talbertr@gvsu.edu / http://rtalbert.org / LinkedIn / Twitter Slides: Grading for Growth blog: http://...

Reflections on a first attempt at alternative grading

Some colleges are trying something surprising to make sure their freshman students make it back to campus for sophomore year: ditching letter grades.

Robert Talbert and David Clark are both mathematics faculty members at Grand Valley State University and authors of the forthcoming book Grading for Growth. They are both incredibly thoughtful and effective teachers who share their experiences, in...

What I learned from my latest iteration and what I'll change next time

Reflections on my latest version of alternative grading

Helping students track their progress and understand your system

Grades are not only statistically useless, they have been acting as academic gatekeepers for millions of students, unjustly sorting, sifting, and selecting which students get to go where and why.  Published by Human Restoration Project, a 501(c)3 organization restoring humanity to education.

Reflections on my gradeless system

How I used grade-free assessments in Euclidean Geometry

Robert Talbert is a math professor, so numbers are his thing. And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him.That became clear ...

I used Collaborative Grading in my General Biology Course and I made a bunch of mistakes! Learn from me what NOT to do.

Terms, facts, and questions to help tell the story of ungrading

Influential institutions throw their weight behind bringing competency-based education to high school and college.

How do we reimagine assessment when grades are so thoroughly baked into our educational systems? How do we reimagine assessment when quantitative and standardized assessment is also weaponized against teachers?

The final exam can be a great platform for experimentation

Rather than wondering at how we fit our pedagogies into systems that have become increasingly standardized and quantitative, we need to look askance at those systems, and find ways to dismantle barriers to teaching and learning.

You can use alternative grading in your class tomorrow

Grading is hard work, but we can make it easier.

Ungrading and Alternative Assessment Jesse Stommel (Twitter: @Jessifer), Faculty in the Writing Program at University of Denver and Executive Director, Hybrid Pedagogy: the journal of critical digital pedagogy Designing for Care Slides: Pedagogies of Care OCR-Enabled PDF of Pedagogies of Care...

Amid growing concerns about mental health, some schools seek to ease the pressure on first-year students. Critics say this "ungrading" amounts to coddling and could set them up for failure.

Wait, what am I being accused of now?

Some unsolicited suggestions for the ungrading community to start 2023.

What are factors that can help or hinder my success in using specs grading?

What did that word mean, again?!

Powerful possibilities open up when considering how we might embrace strategies that reduce anxiety, increase transparency, encourage consistently meaningful learning, and therefore foster educational justice.

What I'm changing, and what I'm aiming for in 2023