{"id":11945,"date":"2021-04-30T09:27:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl-draft\/?p=11945"},"modified":"2021-05-02T16:55:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T20:55:07","slug":"grading-for-equitable-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/grading-for-equitable-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Grading for Equitable Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Powerful possibilities open up when considering how we might embrace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifescied.org\/doi\/10.1187\/cbe.cbe-14-03-0054\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.lifescied.org\/doi\/10.1187\/cbe.cbe-14-03-0054\">Teaching More by Grading Less (or Differently)<\/a> (Schinske &amp; Tanner, 2014). The resources below aim to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>explore current scholarship on how<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2020\/01\/27\/advice-how-make-grading-more-equitable-opinion\"> Improved Grading Makes Classrooms More Equitable<\/a> (Feldman, 2020) and manageable for both our students and ourselves, and\u00a0<\/li><li>offer practical grading strategies that reduce anxiety, increase transparency, encourage consistently meaningful learning, and therefore foster educational justice.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"cl-tiles thirds equal-height\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/cte.virginia.edu\/blog\/2020\/12\/04\/alternative-grading-practices-support-both-equity-and-learning\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Alternative Grading: Practices to Support Both Equity and Learning<\/h2><p>UVA\u2019s CTE blog post explores how specifications grading can help to make grades a more meaningful part of the learning process.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/atl-conversation-grading-for-learning\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>ATL Conversation: Grading for Learning<\/h2><p>A panel of URI faculty teaching in a variety of diverse disciplines and settings discuss their experiences with Standards-based and Specifications Grading. (Recorded March 2021)<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/gradingforequity.org\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Grading for Equity<\/h2><p>A book by Joe Feldman<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2020\/09\/09\/new-approaches-assessment-can-promote-student-success-times-crisis-well-normalcy\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Humane Assessment During the COVID Pandemic and Beyond<\/h2><p>An Inside Higher Ed article by Rosalie Metro<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/learning-community-grading-for-learning\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Learning Community &#8211; Grading for Learning: Empowering Students with Agency for Growth<\/h2><p>If you\u2019re interested in exploring grading strategies that reduce anxiety, increase transparency, and encourage consistently meaningful learning, join us for this Spring 2022 Learning Community! <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/cte.rice.edu\/blogarchive\/2016\/2\/9\/grading\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Meaningful, Moral, and Manageable? The Grading Holy Grail<\/h2><p>An instructor shares why she decided to try specifications grading and lessons learned from her experiment.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/www.semanticscholar.org\/paper\/Teaching-More-by-Grading-Less-%28or-Differently%29-Schinske-Tanner\/692c6cdba7f25b48a9a7778a09a5e14090229895?p2df\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Teaching More by Grading Less (or Differently)<\/h2><p>After reviewing the history of and research on grading practices, the authors share four strategies for making the process 'more productive, better aligned with student learning, and less burdensome for faculty and students.'<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Specifications Grading<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"cl-tiles thirds equal-height\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/87567555.2021.2018396?journalCode=vcol20\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Is Specifications Grading Right for Me?: A Readiness Assessment to Help Instructors Decide<\/h2><p>Article that contains 'a readiness assessment tool that prompts instructors\u2019 reflection on how institutional culture, identity, and course\/curricular contexts may pose or alleviate the risks of adopting nontraditional grading practices.'<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/cer.jhu.edu\/files\/InnovInstruct-Ped-18_specifications-grading.pdf\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Meaningful Grades with Specifications Grading<\/h2><p>An introduction by JHU Innovative Instructor series<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/styluspub.presswarehouse.com\/browse\/book\/9781620362426\/Specifications-Grading\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Specifications Grading<\/h2><p>A book by Linda Nilson<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/rtalbert.org\/specs-grading-iteration-winner\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Specifications Grading: We May Have a Winner<\/h2><p>A Mathematics professor shares his experience with Specifications Grading<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ungrading<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"cl-tiles thirds equal-height\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/grades-can-hinder-learning-what-should-professors-use-instead\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Grades Can Hinder Learning<\/h2><p>An article from The Chronicle of Higher Education by Beckie Supiano<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/wvupressonline.com\/node\/844\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Ungrading<\/h2><p>A book edited by Susan D. Bloom<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/www.jessestommel.com\/ungrading-an-faq\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Ungrading: An FAQ<\/h2><p>Jesse Stommel offers key insights and considerations about Ungrading: An FAQ<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Antiracist and Labor-Based Writing Assessment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"cl-tiles thirds equal-height\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/wac.colostate.edu\/books\/perspectives\/inoue\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future<\/h2><p>An ebook by Asao B. Inoue<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1YHW8oKZkf4oiCCnc1l4k7OBseHBddNxKHifmxdKTlG4\/edit\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Equitable and Inclusive Assessment Practices for Diverse Writing Intensive Classrooms<\/h2><p>Handout by Asao B. Inoue from a 2020 Faculty Workshop at Pima Community College<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/wac.colostate.edu\/books\/perspectives\/labor\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom<\/h2><p>An ebook by Asao B. Inoue<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"http:\/\/tracigardner.com\/labor\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>When Your Grades Are Based on Labor<\/h2><p>An infographic on labor-based grading from a student perspective<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Growth Mindset<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"cl-tiles thirds equal-height\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/ed.ted.com\/on\/UA77FlTc#watch\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Carol Dweck, Growth Mindsets and Motivation<\/h2><p>A video with Dr. Carol Dweck<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettingsmart.com\/2018\/02\/mindset-and-the-power-of-yet\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Mindset, and the Power of \u201cYet\u201d<\/h2><p>An article by Jamie Beck<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J-swZaKN2Ic\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>The Power of Yet<\/h2><p>A TEDx talk by Dr. Carol Dweck<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerful possibilities open up when considering how we might embrace strategies that reduce anxiety, increase transparency, encourage consistently meaningful learning, and therefore foster educational justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4268,"featured_media":12018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-11945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-topic","tag-jedi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11945"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12554,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945\/revisions\/12554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}