Episode Details

In part 2 of our interview with Dr. Jeff Anderson, we delve deeply into ideas about the connections between grades, behaviourism, and anti-democracy. This is a conversation that goes well beyond the "how-to" of alternative grading and explores the WHY of grades and how they connect to some of the biggest challenges we currently face in our world.

Links

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• About Behaviorism, B.F. Skinner
• Beyond Freedom & Dignity, B. F. Skinner
• Punished By Rewards, 25th Anniversary Edition, Alfie Kohn
• Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Classroom (The Perspectives on Writing), Asao Inoue
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel Pink
• Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, Anders Ericsson
• How Learning Works: Eight Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching, Susan Ambrose, et al
• Wealth Supremacy, Marjorie Kelly
• The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind, Jonah Berger
• Talking About Leaving Revisited (downloads PDF), edited by Elaine Seymour and Anne-Barrier Hunter
• No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, Jane McAlevey
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Resources

Writings and Interviews by Jeff Anderson

• Jeff Anderson's How to Become a Strategic Deep Learner project
• Jeff Anderson's Essential Ungrading Reading List
• Jeff Anderson's Antiracist Reading List
• Jeff Anderson's Ungrading Project
• TPSE Math | Interview with Jeff Anderson (Foothill College) and Kate Stevenson (CSU Northridge)
• A Conversation about Alternative Assessment (Companion Blog post to the TPSE Math Interview)

Jeff Anderson's Hosted Resources

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