Ungrading

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