I left my 2025 MTA Summer Conference workshop participants with some guidance on grading less. This post for my 2026 12-hr course participants updates that guidance…
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Read This: Going Gradeless (Burns & Frangiosa, 2021)
The authors document changes made to their grading and assessment practices while “going gradeless” in an effort to reduce grading. You should read this for all their “why?” reasons for doing so, along with the many rubrics and learning progressions to get you thinking. I wouldn’t recommend implementing everything as-is, but their journey could really help you think about what you should be thinking about.
Continue readingREAD THIS: Sackstein’s “Hacking Assessment” (2nd Ed.)
In getting ready for my 2025 MTA Summer Conference presentation on “Getting More from Your Formative Assessments and Grading,” I found a lot more missing blog posts than just Zerwin’s! For example, I never wrote about Starr Sackstein’s “Hacking Assessment…” years back; there’s good stuff in there, which means I need a record of that stuff here.
Continue readingREAD THIS: Zerwin’s “Point-Less…”
In cobbling together sources for my 2025 MTA Summer Conference presentation on “Getting More from Your Formative Assessments and Grading,” I searched my blog to link posts on books I consider foundational. Somehow, I never published the post I wrote after reading Zerwin’s “Point-less” years back. Her work deserves some attention…
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