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16 - Critiquing the Critiques: Two Recent Articles About Alternative Grading
Description
Alternative grading is getting more and more press coverage. Some of it good, some of it not so good. In this episode, Sharona and Bosley look carefully at a couple of recent articles about alternative grading and discuss whether the critiques contained in them are valid or questionable.
Links to the articles discussed, and some others:
- No Zeros Grading is Sold as an Equity Shortcut. It's Not.
- Your Kids Aren't Learning: Mastery-Based Learning + Equitable Grading = Fraud
- Debunking Myths of Standards-Based Grading
- Schools are adopting mastery-based grading. How does it work? (includes citations from Sharona Krinsky)
Links
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Specific links here.
Resources
The Grading Conference - an annual, online conference exploring Alternative Grading in Higher Education & K-12.
Some great resources to educate yourself about Alternative Grading:
Recommended Books on Alternative Grading (Please note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!):
- Grading for Growth, by Robert Talbert and David Clark
- Specifications Grading, by Linda Nilsen
- Undoing the Grade, by Jesse Stommel
- Grading for Equity, by Joe Feldman
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