Hello! I just found your site today and am so excited to see this work! I just finished a book about grading for growth (and broader than academic standards) and can't wait to dig into your work more. Mine will come out in April with Corwin Press. I was using the word "mastery assessment," and I hope there is still time to make the change. Your argument is compelling. Thank you for sharing your thinking.
Thanks for your comment, Virginia. As I mentioned, for now -- and for me personally -- I am resisting the urge to label. My experience with similar issues around flipped learning (a term which I don't like) indicate that labeling can be counterproductive and exclusionary. Instead, David and I are focusing on the "pillars" that alternative/nontraditional systems have in common.
Also, the title of David's and my book is going to be "Grading for Growth" and using that phrase to refer to all these grading practices strikes me as self-indulgent if I were to be the one doing it -- like I'm trying to make it my brand and then profit off of it.
But that's just me, and like I said in the article, people can call it whatever they want and perhaps something will stick.
Hello! I just found your site today and am so excited to see this work! I just finished a book about grading for growth (and broader than academic standards) and can't wait to dig into your work more. Mine will come out in April with Corwin Press. I was using the word "mastery assessment," and I hope there is still time to make the change. Your argument is compelling. Thank you for sharing your thinking.
Why not just call it grading for growth, which is what it is?
Thanks for your comment, Virginia. As I mentioned, for now -- and for me personally -- I am resisting the urge to label. My experience with similar issues around flipped learning (a term which I don't like) indicate that labeling can be counterproductive and exclusionary. Instead, David and I are focusing on the "pillars" that alternative/nontraditional systems have in common.
Also, the title of David's and my book is going to be "Grading for Growth" and using that phrase to refer to all these grading practices strikes me as self-indulgent if I were to be the one doing it -- like I'm trying to make it my brand and then profit off of it.
But that's just me, and like I said in the article, people can call it whatever they want and perhaps something will stick.