Episode 31. Grades Do Harm! Who Are They For Anyway? with Jesse Stommel
Summary
Grades demotivate student learning. That is a problem. Faculty also often spend significant amounts of time grading. Another problem. So, if we know grading demotivates learning and we are spending lots of our time grading, are we working against ourselves? Are we working against the goals of our courses? Isn’t our goal to motivate students to learn, and then provide them with the resources they need to move from novice towards expert? In this episode Dr. Jesse Stommel talks about problems with the traditional grading system in which most of us participate and possible alternatives.
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Recommended Readings
Learning for Justice “A Trauma-informed Approach to Teaching Through Coronavirus”
Soraya Chemaly, “All Teachers Should Be Trained To Overcome Their Hidden Biases”
Sara Goldrick-Rab, “It’s Hard to Study if You’re Hungry”
bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, “Chapter 1”
Asao Inoue, Antiracist Writing, Assessment Ecologies
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