💥 Excellent “Alternative Grading” handout from Drew Lewis (@siwelwerd)
▶ Using MBL Principles in Writing & Literature Courses
▶ Motivating Students: Key Factors
▶ Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom—Asao B. Inoue
▶ A Unilateral Grading Contract to Improve Learning and Teaching [co-written with Jane Danielewicz]—Peter Elbow
▶ Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time—Linda B. Nilson
▶ A comprehensive Ungrading Reading List (I believe this is from @meganvonbergen)
▶ Wad-Ja-Get? The Grading Game in American Education—Howard Kirschenbaum, Rodney Napier, and Sidney B. Simon; With a new introduction by Professor Barry Fishman
▶ Punished by Rewards—Alfie Kohn (plus “The Case against Grades”)
▶ Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School—Starr Sackstein
▶ Grading for Equity—Joe Feldman
▶ UNgrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What To Do Instead)—Susan D. Blum, Editor
▶ The #UngradingSlowChat (June-December 2020)
▶ The #Ungrading Virtual Book Club (December 2020-June 2021)
▶ The #Ungrading Edcamp (November 4-6, 2021)
▶ The Let’s Talk! #Ungrading Twitter Spaces convos (December 2021-current)
▶ Crowdsourcing Ungrading (open, CC-licensed text, with contributions from #ungrading folks)
▶ Ungrading: A Road to Equity (my default presentation)
▶ Questions about ENGL-121 (my *liquid* syllabus in which I introduce my ungrading assessment to students)
▶ Labor Support Group [Template] (student groups of 5-6 members)
▶ Coming soon (I hope!). . . an open, CC-licensed children’s book—
Gone Goes the Grade Bunch: An ungrading book for kids who see learning for what it is!
▶ From Jesse Stommel
▶ My Labor-Reflex Model