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Howard Rheingold

Educators, read this! by @Jessifer
#pedagogy #learning #education

Hybrid Pedagogy is proud to announce publication of Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop by Jesse Stommel. This book represents over 20 years of thinking and writing about grades. The work of ungrading is to ask hard questions, point to the fundamental inequities of grades, and push for structural change. Undoing the Grade offers pedagogies and practices that make assessment more equitable

https://hybridpedagogy.org/undoing-the-grade/

Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop

Ungrading means raising an eyebrow at grades as a systemic practice, distinct from simply not grading. The word, "ungrading," is a present participle, an ongoing process, not a static set of practices.

Hybrid Pedagogy
Aug 15, 2023 at 7:27pmWeb
Show threadDr. FlowersAug 15, 2023
@hrheingold If there’s no grade, why is there assessment? @Jessifer @birv2
Show threadHoward RheingoldAug 15, 2023
@AlliFlowers @Jessifer @birv2 l Formative assessment helps the learner. Normative assessment is for asministrators. Taste the soup to see it needs salt vs taste the soup to review it.
Show threadDr. FlowersAug 15, 2023
@hrheingold I am a big fan of formative assessment. But until states do away with high stakes testing, summative assessment will be providing grades. @Jessifer @birv2
Show threadHoward RheingoldAug 15, 2023
@AlliFlowers @Jessifer @birv2 Agreed!
Show threadGayleSep 11, 2023
@hrheingold @Jessifer I love this! Hated grading my grad students so for many years gave everyone an A if they showed up and handed in work. The provided written feedback, opportunities to improve, and self reflection. Wish I had this when I started