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Grading for Growth: A Guide to Alternative Grading Practices that Promote Authentic Learning and Student Engagement in Higher Education

David Clark

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to alternative grading, beginning with a framework and rationale for implementation and evidence of its effectiveness. This book is intended for faculty interested in exploring alternative forms of learning assessment who are looking for ideas and options to refine practice.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: Jul 3rd, 2023
  • Pages: 262
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.55in - 0.79lb
  • EAN: 9781642673814
  • Categories: Schools - Levels - HigherEvaluation & AssessmentDistance, Open & Online Education

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About the Author

Clark, David: -

David Clark is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Grand Valley State University. As a classroom teacher, his classes are active, engaging, and highly student centered. His research also centers on students, especially through projects that introduce them to mathematical research through puzzles and games. David has won numerous teaching awards, including the Mathematical Association of America's national Alder Award. He lives with his wife Sarah in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he hikes, gardens, and plays board games (usually losing).

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Praise for this book

"In this book, Clark and Talbert offer the finest compilation of the weaknesses of traditional grading...that I have ever run across. They then present 'Four Pillars of Alternative Grading, ' shared by all the emerging grading systems that their book addresses: Standards-Based Grading, Specifications Grading, and Ungrading. Among these pillars are clearly defined performance expectations and a focus on encouraging student progress.

Clark and Talbert even move beyond these three systems to all kinds of partial conversions and hybrid variations on them. These are not just hypothetical variants. The authors describe these variants, along with the 'pure' forms, as implemented in actual courses that have used them. One variant even integrates student portfolios. These examples come from disparate institutions and encompass a variety of courses: from STEM to humanities, from small to truly large classes, from lecture-based to lab-based to studio labs, from the one-instructor creation to the tightly coordinated multi-section type--something for everyone. And something to give courage to everyone who wants to explore alternative grading.

This book makes it easy to dip your toe into the water. One entire chapter is a 'workbook' to guide the changeover, and it asks only that you make a partial conversion involving only one or two of the Four Pillars and just a few aspects of your course. This guidance makes you think deeply about your course in general--what is special about it, why you are teaching it, how it is structured, who the students are, and what different final grades mean."

"Have you heard about alternative assessment but weren't sure how to make it happen? Worried about rigor? Check. Worried about class size? Check. Worried about shared curricula? STEM? Labs? Grading for Growth, organized around four 'pillars, ' has you covered. Faculty members in any discipline, institution, and position, will appreciate the detailed ideas of how to transform classes partially or completely. Come for the explanation of grading; stay for the wisdom about teaching in general."

Susan D. Blum, Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, editor of Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), and author of the forthcoming Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic Learning, Cornell

"It's become clear that traditional grading is a poor--even damaging--choice for meaningfully assessing learning. But the vast range of critiques and alternative approaches can seem overwhelming. Fear not: David Clark and Robert Talbert are here to help us navigate the complicated landscape of grading and assessment. This thorough, informative, and humane book is perfect for those of us looking to do better for our students, no matter where we are on our own 'ungrading' journey."

Kevin Gannon, Director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence and Professor of History, Queens University of Charlotte