Sitemap - 2024 - Grading for Growth

How to handle the unexpected

What We’re Talking about When We Talk about Nontraditional Grading

How alternative grading helps me write better letters of recommendation

How I use specifications grading in a biology seminar course

Common questions about standards-based grading

Applying for faculty jobs as an alternative grader

What music has taught me about grading

When alternative grading goes (almost) wrong

How my use of the EMRN rubric has changed over time

Sociology Compels Alternative Grading

Blackboard Ultra assignments and alternative grading

A labor day break

Why I don't grade presentations (and what I do instead)

A college that has never had grades

How I am updating my alternative grading approach for Fall

Beyond the Single Classroom: A Model for Program-Wide Alternative Grading

Grading intentionally using the Payoff Principle

Inquiry and Community with Collaborative Grading

Three personal productivity mindsets for alternative grading

Yet another July break

Updating an alternative grading system after a 6 year break

Three takeaways from the 2024 Grading Conference

It's a week off!

Is alternative grading innovative?

Standards or specifications?

The "Top 5" (sort of) posts at Grading For Growth

Promoting student growth with engagement credits

Beyond Achievement

Why not to use alternative grading

Ungrading in new courses

It's exam week!

When students get stuck at “Not Yet”

Traditional grades are (still) not mathematically valid

How alternative grading and flipped learning work together

How alternative grading helps me support struggling students

Alternative grading with friends

20 small starts for alternative grading

A new call for guest authors

Busting the System Myth

Ungrading in Real Life

What about me?

An open discussion thread, and a book club

Three ways I am simplifying my alternative grading this semester

Alternative grading in international contexts

Gateways, not gatekeeping

Ungrading Has an Equity-Related Achilles Heel