A holiday break
Four recent articles to keep you warm
We’re taking a break from new content this week to relax and enjoy the holidays with family and friends. Next week, we’ll return with a year-end retrospective on the blog and some exciting looks ahead to what’s in store for 2025.
In the meanwhile, here are four recent posts from November and December that you really liked — one from David, one from Robert, and two from guest authors. Enjoy them, and enjoy the holiday break.
Robert wrote this article about how alternative grading provides a rich source of material for supporting students after they finish a class:
A couple of recent guest posts focus on the idea of communities of practice, which are critically important for real change. Here’s one of those from Kristina Reardon1:
Many readers are just starting out with alternative grading. Whether you’re one of those people or a seasoned veteran, this article from David about your second attempt at alt-grading is very helpful:
Finally, a lot of people “liked” this article from Nelly Litvak and Noella Müller on a detailed implementation of specifications grading in probability and statistics in a Dutch university:
See you again next week!
The original post somehow credited Robert as the author instead of Kristina! Sorry, it’s fixed now.