A long winter's nap
We'll be back in 2024!
Surprise — it’s a Grading for Growth post on a Friday!
Fall semester has come and gone, and we are spending time with family and friends for the next few weeks. As a result, we won’t be posting for the next two Mondays.
We’ll be back on January 8, 2024 with new posts to get you thinking! But if you’re already thinking about next semester, here are a few past posts that might be helpful:
Robert’s advice on what to think about before planning an alternatively graded class:
What to do before you do alternative grading
Some of you might be in the following situation: You've learned a lot about alternative grading. You've become convinced that moving toward grading practices that involve one or more of the Four Pillars is a good idea. And you're not just convinced that alternative grading is a good idea in theory, but that it's a doabl…
Katie Mattaini’s excellent guest post on a critical part of all teaching:
Building meaningful student-instructor relationships
Today’s guest post is written by Katie Mattaini, a Lecturer in Biology at Roger Williams University. Since uttering the fateful question “What kind of monster doesn’t give partial credit?!” in January 2020, she has enthusiastically adopted standards-based grading or ungrading in all of her courses, and is one of…
My thoughts on the importance of helping students trust your approach to grading:
Building Trust
When you’ve created a new grading system from the ground up, you know it better than anyone else. It’s easy to forget how alien this system can seem to your students, who are (for better or for worse) used to points, partial credit, and the possibility of being permanently sunk by a bad exam. Worse, many students are used…
See you on January 8th!