Grading for Growth

Specifications Grading and the LMS Gradebook

Helping Students Understand Their Course Progress

Oct 6 • 

Jody Langdon

29

September 2025

Knee-jerk reactions

Strong, sudden opinions about alternative grading

Sep 29 • 

David Clark

35

8

Using collaborative grading as a new professor

Benefits and challenges of moving away from percentage-based grading

Sep 22 • 

Noel Warford

38

6

Can deliberate practice be motivated?

A review of a research paper that studies this question, and what it means for alt-graders

Sep 15 • 

Robert Talbert

22

2

Feedback, revisions, and the writing process

Tracking growth across drafts in an undergraduate research course

Sep 8 • 

Jane Wageman

26

2

A quick labor day break

Plus, some guest posts to get you thinking

Sep 1 • 

David Clark

 and 

Robert Talbert

41

August 2025

Helping new TAs find value in required training

How alternative grading increased satisfaction in a large online, asynchronous, pass/fail course

Aug 25 • 

Robin

 and 

Daphna Atias

33

1

A start of school break

And, some news about our book!

Aug 18 • 

David Clark

32

Throwback: Gateways, not gatekeeping

Or, how not to scare away new alternative graders

Aug 11 • 

David Clark

45

Alternative grading and deliberate practice

A framework for feedback, and thoughts on using it

Aug 4 • 

Robert Talbert

23

6

July 2025

Mixing and matching SBG and Specifications (part 2)

Learning how to learn, final grades, and reflections

Jul 28 • 

David Clark

16

3

Mixing and matching SBG and Specifications (part 1)

How I use multiple grading approaches in an intro-to-proofs class

Jul 21 • 

David Clark

16