#ungrading

[libraryben]

The word “ungrading" means raising an eyebrow at grades as a systemic practice, distinct from simply “not grading.” The word is a present participle, an ongoing process, not a static set of practices. Ungrading is a systemic critique, a series of conversations we have about grades, ideally drawing students into those conversations with the goal of engaging them as full agents in their own education. For me, there aren’t a discrete set of best practices for ungrading, because different students learn in different ways at different times with different teachers in different disciplines at different institutions. So, the work of teaching, the work of reimagining assessment, is necessarily idiosyncratic. Most important to the work of ungrading is that we start by asking hard questions of our traditional approaches to assessment. There is a meaningful distinction to be made between grades and assessment. But at this moment, I'd say our approaches to assessment, our syllabi, the work we ask students to do, the shape of academic labour, is increasingly structured by grades. Rather than wondering at how we fit our pedagogies into systems that have become increasingly standardized and quantitative, we need to look askance at those systems, and find ways to dismantle barriers to teaching and learning. Grades are inequitable. As they are increasingly centered at our institutions and within our educational technologies (like the learning management system), the inequities of grades are exacerbated, and our most marginalized students are further marginalized. This is one reason it’s imperative that we rethink our approaches to assessment. The work of teaching is also precarious. The majority of teachers in higher education work in contingent, adjunct, or sessional positions, but increasingly the work of all teachers at all levels of education is not adequately supported and is structurally devalued. And so, teachers are rightfully skeptical of approaches to assessment that increase our labor with little benefit to us or students. Teachers are rightfully skeptical of approaches to assessment that create a culture of suspicion and competition, while further fracturing the already strained relationships between students, between teachers, and between students and teachers.

#Grades #Grading #Ungrading #pedagogy #Education

[cilawarncke]

On Ungrading with Anthony Lince

Ungrading, antiracist education, hoop dreams and Lord of the Rings - Between the Lines with Latinx educator Anthony Lince

This is the debut post of ‘Between the Lines’ – interviews with teachers, writers and writing teachers on specific aspects of their craft. This week’s interview is with Anthony Lince, per his online bio ‘a Latinx educator and scholar who teaches first-year writing courses at UC San Diego and local community colleges.’ Photo courtesy Anthony Lince Writing: From ‘terrified’ to teacher In…

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#Anthony Lince #antiracist teaching #authors #between the lines #education #interviews #labor based grading #Latinx educator #ungrading #writing

[monriatitans]

Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor Explains

Grading is a scam and motivation is a myth. Those sound like bold words, but today we're going to dive down the rabbit hole and prove, once and for all, that our current state of schooling (and of...well..._everything_) is rotten to its core. 

...that's all a little dramatic, but that really is the goal of this video. Our schools are broken, our workplaces are broken, and our society is broken...and it's all because of bad psychology and bad economics.

00:00 - Maria's Story 03:22 - Intro 06:13 - Brief History of Grades 08:37 - Why are Grades a Scam? 13:13 - Assumptions About Motivation 16:17 - Why Is Motivation a Myth? 19:44 - Why Rewards Don't Work 25:50 - Fixing Our Schools 33:55 - Advice for Teachers 38:19 - Fixing Our Workplaces 42:52 - Conclusion 46:32 - Outro

* Sources: * ---Books ------Education: A Very Short Introduction - Gary Thomas ------Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire ------Punished By Rewards - Alfie Kohn ------Teaching to Transgress - bell hooks ------Ungrading: Why Rating Undermines Student Learning (And What to Do Instead) - edited by Susan D. Blum

---Articles ------"A Century of Grading Research: Meaning and Value in the Most Common Educational Measure" - Brookhart et al. ------"A change to pass/fail grading in the first two years at one medical school results in improved psychological well-being" - Bloodgood et al. ------"Children's Task Interest and Performance: Immediate Versus Subsequent Effects of Rewards" - Fabes et al. ------"Do Material Rewards Enhance the Performance of Lower-Class Children?" - Janet T. Spence ------"The Effects of Contingent and Noncontingent Rewards and Controls on Intrinsic Motivation" - Edward L. Deci ------"The Impact of Anticipated Reward Upon Cross-age Tutoring" - James Garbarino ------"Motivation and Creativity: Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writers" - Teresa M. Amabile ------"Problem Solving: Response Competition and the Influence of Drive" - Sam Glucksberg ------"Teaching More by Grading Less (or Differently)" - Schinske and Tanner

* Art: *  ---all illustrations by A. McNamee (@audmcname), http://audmcname.com ---all photos and videos from Creative Commons

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[sheri42]

Etmooc2: Journey to AI

#clmooc #etmooc #etmooc2 Artificial Intelligence Mooc-- Come join the conversation...

What is a MOOC ? Shared by either Erin or Susan ETmooc2 Educational Technology MOOC [ETmooc] the first occurred in 2013. That MOOC and CLmooc [Connected Learning] in the same year helped guide me to safe, integrated, pedagogically sound use of technology with students and their families. Many of the participants of both ETmooc and CLmooc continued to connect, gather, and collaborate since that…

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#About AI #ungrading

[eddievillanueva]

“Watching Jesse Stommel on Big Question Institute” 2/21/23 - @jessiferjs #jessestommel #ungrading #bigquestioninstitute #deia #realchangeinschools #justicegrading #accommodations #grading #gradingstudents #drawing #sketchbook #drawingoftheday #photooftheday #sketchoftheday #artistofinstagram #collage #coloredpencil #ink #inkdrawing #art #artwork #artschool #artistlife #radicalhonesty #watercolor #markers #alcoholmarkers https://www.instagram.com/p/Co8qyy2M6EA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#jessestommel #ungrading #bigquestioninstitute #deia #realchangeinschools #justicegrading #accommodations #grading #gradingstudents #drawing #sketchbook #drawingoftheday #photooftheday #sketchoftheday #artistofinstagram #collage #coloredpencil #ink #inkdrawing #art #artwork #artschool #artistlife #radicalhonesty #watercolor #markers #alcoholmarkers

[quicksilverblue]

Adventures in Ungrading:

So, after discussions and reading and a bit of research, I decided to ungrade this semester. Students still do homework, but it’s complete/incomplete.

The reading questions are the same as they were for last two semesters. But whereas last semester I was looking for depth of answers, and not always getting in-depth answers, this semester, when I’m not grading them, the vast majority are in-depth thoughtful answers!

Just... like... of all the things I hoped for from this, from making the point that taking the time to answer the questions thoroughly is for their benefit and not to meet my standards, the level of work I’m seeing was not expected! I thought it would take stress off them and me; remove any sense of judgement, any need to give the right answer. And I guess it did that!

I think I’m sold!

#that adjunct life #ungrading

[eclecticsophism]

love it when professors try things like this

#studyblr #gradblr #i see more and more instructors offering ungraded assignments #or practice contract grading #and then we get things like this #all kinds of increased flexibility #easily happens in my dept it seems bc almost everyone has a bg in pedagogy #anyway! #that's my studyblr offering for the week supongo #personal

[levilxvr]

when i wake up with 3 more art projects due in 2.5 weeks

#aquie rambles #this is not very ok #i just finished like 2 ungraded canvas thingies and now theres another one😭 #this christmas isnt looking very magical

[fitzrove]

help this fic is already 1600 words and they're not even [redacted] yet hshsjhjkdkghk. Like they're not even doing the classic messed up pre-[redacted] activity that always happens in my todolf fics. there's 5 pages of outline left to write out and like that's the outline...............................

#my professors like 'hey can you write this short ungraded methods paper it should be around 1500 words' #me: 'no<3 not until the deadline haha. would you like to read my 15k todolf p*rn fic instead though' #JASJASKDFJKGKG disclaimer i would not say that #second disclaimer it might not end up that long idk.....

[enwonz]

imma poop out the next kingmaker chapter this weekend im sick of the mugger life😭

#lee talkz #god bless #yk how there’s hell week in other countries #every week is hell week #because the tests never end #ungraded tests feel like the end of the world #UNGRADED TESTS.

[nailgunstigmata]

#like. its ungraded and doesnt really matter like people have been half assing it #and i dont want to do it on my own because the theme sucks and i dont know how to explain it but also #i feel bad for my partner whos actually sick like 😭😭😭 #sad ant with bindle

[la-galaxie-langblr]

They should invent a French that is easy to understand

#hi hello uni is Going #i'm managing just about with the workload and having loads of fun too #and i know that it's good if i find stuff challenging cus that's kind of the point and it gives me guidance on how to improve #but man i sure wish it didn't take me 40+ mins to do a listening comprehension because i cannot comprehend what i'm listening to #this is an ungraded thing as well but i have to do it for my homework completion grade - i'll deffo need the 10% it'll give me #anyways back to work 💀 #ellis exclaims

[the-kneesbees]

i hate teachers that make projects due at like 10:00 am 😭 just make it due at midnight that night youre not gonna grade it for a week anyway whats the point

#i have this teacher who didnt put a sinle grade in until halfway through the term #and he has ungraded stuff from the very begining of the term thats closing in a few weeks #but he has the audacity not to accept late work #🙄 #post posting

[lambentplume]

my UI lit review just makes me want to make games

#THINKING... discursive construction of meaning through play etc etc #the thesis of my lit review is like. how the interface itself generates meaning and messages (and political and ethical implications) #thinking so dearly about video games. i've never tried to develop one before nor do i have Any way of doing so #i also don't have anything i'd really want to say through a game. i just want to play in a space #jaerambles #also because this is part of a graduation requirement class i get nervous about it. not because i need department approval #but because i personally have to finish it. doesn't help that my prof likes the idea and thus does not provide constructive criticism #i might hammer out something a week before the ungraded draft deadline and see what she thinks about it though. #it's Not a thesis so it's not that deep but especially if i want to go to grad school i might as well write something i can show off #phew. thank you tags i love you tags.

[eddievillanueva]

“Change Grading Culture” 2/21/23 - #ungrading #grading #pedagogy #radicalpedagogies #culture #drsusanblum @humanrestorationproject #grades #schoolstress #drawing #sketchbook #drawingoftheday #photooftheday #sketchoftheday #artistofinstagram #collage #coloredpencil #ink #inkdrawing #art #artwork #artschool #artistlife #radicalhonesty #watercolor #markers #alcoholmarkers #studentgrades @suicidal_teachers @teachergoals https://www.instagram.com/p/Co7mLPKrMtD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#ungrading #grading #pedagogy #radicalpedagogies #culture #drsusanblum #grades #schoolstress #drawing #sketchbook #drawingoftheday #photooftheday #sketchoftheday #artistofinstagram #collage #coloredpencil #ink #inkdrawing #art #artwork #artschool #artistlife #radicalhonesty #watercolor #markers #alcoholmarkers #studentgrades

[snixx]

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#@my dsa dept: kill yourself. #like please just die. no one is gonna be sad about it i promise #do you feed off of students' tears. every time i think you've reached rock bottom you hit a new low #no that's all i have to say. kill yourselves. #like kindly perish. that's all #vagueposting the shit out of tumblr dot com #anyway mutuals and followers pray for me. i am going to fail todays (surprise) evaluated lab #THEY PROMISED US THEY WOULDN'T HAVE ONE TODAY. regular class on debugging they said. it'll be ungraded they said. #as if we haven't had enough tests this week. #kys