Jesse Stommel

@Jessifer
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Fan of one word sentences. Feminist.
Jesse StommelDec 13, 2023

Bad Data Are Not Better Than No Data: a guide for radically inserting ourselves in decisions about educational technologies

A new piece in @AAUP’s #Academe by me and @mburtis: https://www.aaup.org/article/bad-data-are-not-better-no-data

Bad Data Are Not Better Than No Data

Educators shouldn’t sit back and passively embrace any technology. The purpose of education is exactly to ask hard questions. This is especially true of technologies that become ubiquitous at our institutions, when colleges and universities purchase tools that outsource basic functions to external, for-profit companies.

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Jesse StommelOct 20, 2023

"There's no magic solution to the issue of equity in education. It has to be constantly under revision because our students are changing, we're changing, and our contexts are changing."

Click to hear my recent conversation with @[email protected] for the Student Success Podcast https://www.continuous-learning-institute.com/blog/undoing-the-grade-with-dr-jesse-stommel

Undoing the Grade with Dr. Jesse Stommel

Dr. Jesse Stommel unpacks his book, Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop

Show threadJesse StommelOct 13, 2023
My new book is available in print, ebook, and fully open-access versions. You can read the introduction here. 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.

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Show threadJesse StommelOct 13, 2023
We'll be joined by @mburtis, who wrote the foreword to my new book. She writes, "After years of figuring out how to make ungrading work, I’ve learned one thing: it isn’t actually about grades. It is about the things that grades stand in for." https://pressbooks.pub/thegrade/front-matter/foreword/
Foreword – Undoing the Grade

Jesse StommelOct 13, 2023

Open Online Office Hours: Ungrading Edition

I'm hosting a conversation tomorrow at Noon eastern. I don’t promise easy answers, but I will work with those who show up to find creative, compassionate solutions — and likely more questions.

Click to RSVP. https://www.jessestommel.com/open-online-office-hours-ungrading-edition/

Open Online Office Hours: Ungrading Edition

The work of ungrading is to ask hard questions, point to the fundamental inequities of grades, and push for structural change. Who is assessment for? What's the difference between grading and feedback? Why do we grade? What would happen if we didn’t grade? Throughout Fall of 2023, I will

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Jesse StommelSep 26, 2023
Bryan AlexanderSep 25, 2023

What is ungrading? Why and how might academics use it?

Join us this Thursday as the Future Trends Forum hosts Jesse Stommel to explore:
https://shindig.com/login/event/stommel
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Jesse StommelAug 22, 2023
Ungrading is an equitable practice because grades do harm. And marginalized students are the students most harmed by grades. Finding ways to reduce that harm, and to begin to dismantle grades as a system, is imperative if equity or justice is our goal. https://www.jessestommel.com/ungrading-for-equity/
Ungrading for Equity

Ungrading is an equitable practice because grades do harm. And marginalized students are the ones most harmed by grades. Finding ways to reduce that harm is imperative if equity or justice is our goal.

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Jesse StommelAug 18, 2023
"Grades are an invention with very specific sociohistorical motivations and effects. Conversations about grades are, ultimately, conversations about power, which is why they are so often fraught, especially given how many of us have specific traumatic experiences of both grading and being graded." https://www.jessestommel.com/toward-a-co-intentional-approach-to-assessment/
Toward a Co-intentional Approach to Assessment

For ungrading to be equitable, we can’t merely ask students to grade themselves, but must work together with students to interrogate and dismantle grades as a system.

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Show threadJesse StommelAug 17, 2023
@dgodon Alfie Kohn’s work is a huge inspiration.
Jesse StommelAug 17, 2023
Howard RheingoldAug 15, 2023

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