Ungrading

Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2020
West Virginia University Press (Verlag)
978-1-949199-82-6 (ISBN)

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The moment is right for critical reflection on what has been assumed to be a core part of schooling. In Ungrading, fifteen educators write about their diverse experiences going gradeless. Some contributors are new to the practice and some have been engaging in it for decades. Some are in humanities and social sciences, some in STEM fields. Some are in higher education, but some are the K-12 pioneers who led the way. Based on rigorous and replicated research, this is the first book to show why and how faculty who wish to focus on learning, rather than sorting or judging, might proceed. It includes honest reflection on what makes ungrading challenging, and testimonials about what makes it transformative.

Susan D. Blum is professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. Her work on education builds on her academic specialties of linguistic, psychological, cultural, and educational anthropology. She is the author of My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture and ""I Love Learning; I Hate School"": An Anthropology of College, among other works.

Foreword
Alfie Kohn
Introduction: Why Ungrade? Why Grade?
Susan D. Blum
Part I: Foundations and Models
1. How to Ungrade
Jesse Stommel
2. What Going Gradeless Taught Me about Doing the ""Actual Work""
Aaron Blackwelder
3. Just One Change (Just Kidding): Ungrading and Its Necessary Accompaniments
Susan D. Blum
4. Shifting the Grading Mindset
Starr Sackstein
5. Grades Stifle Student Learning. Can We Learn to Teach without Grades?
Arthur Chiaravalli
Part II: Practices
6. Let's Talk about Grading
Laura Gibbs
7. Contract Grading and Peer Review
Christina Katopodis and Cathy N. Davidson
8. Critique-Driven Learning and Assessment
Christopher Riesbeck
9. A STEM Ungrading Case Study: A Reflection on First-Time Implementation in Organic Chemistry II
Clarissa Sorensen-Unruh
10. The Point-less Classroom: A Math Teacher's Ironic Choice in Not Calculating Grades
Gary Chu
Part III: Reflections
11. Grade Anarchy in the Philosophy Classroom
Marcus Schultz-Bergin
12. Conference Musings and The G Word
Joy Kirr
13. Wile E. Coyote, the Hero of Ungrading
John Warner
Conclusion: Not Simple but Essential
Susan D. BlumAcknowledgments
Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Vorwort	Alfie Kohn
Zusatzinfo	12 black & white images, 6 tables
Verlagsort	Morganstown
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 213 mm
Gewicht	383 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-949199-82-7 / 1949199827
ISBN-13	978-1-949199-82-6 / 9781949199826
Zustand	Neuware