Assessment, Feedback, and (un)Grading
Readings
Amy Hasinoff, “Do You Trust Your Students?” Hybrid Pedagogy, August 22, 2018.
Shea Swauger, “Our Bodies Encoded: Algorithmic Test Proctoring in Higher Education,” Hybrid Pedagogy, April 2, 2020.
Jesse Stommel, “How to Ungrade,” JesseStommel.com, March 11, 2018.
Asao B. Inoue, “Appendix A: English 160W's Grading Contract,” from Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies, 2015.
Robert Talbert, "Specifications grading: We may have a winner," rtalbert.org, April 28, 2017.
Preparation
Reflect on your own experience being graded and assigning grades, and consider your relationship to being evaluated and evaluating others. How are your values challenged and/or reinforced as you consider methods of un-grading?
What kinds of assignments/assessments are most effective in an online or hybrid environment?
more project oriented and open-ended?
portfolio development and other forward-facing assignments?
Is it useful to implement contract grading?
How to turn in and grade handwritten work?
Maintaining academic integrity?
Further Reading
Ben van Overmeire, “Opening the Classroom: Ownership and Engagement,” Hybrid Pedagogy, March 20, 2018.