Welcome to the launch of The Grading Podcast with your hosts, Robert Bosley and Sharona Krinsky.

Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Grading Podcast, a show dedicated to exploring everything related to grading student work in the context of the educational system of the United States.

Grading is a largely unexamined component of the classroom experience for most instructors and students. Until the fifteen years or so, important research into grading practices and their effect on students was often ignored by instructors, administrators, and institutions in favor of a "traditional" points-and-percentages based grading system. However, over the last fifteen years there has been a growing awareness of the destructive nature of our current grading system and an increasing push for reform.

As classroom mathematics instructors, faculty development professionals, users of alternative grading systems and co-organizers of The Grading Conference (now entering its fifth year) the co-hosts Robert Bosley and Sharona Krinsky bring their depth of expertise and experience into the podcast arena to provide an evidence-driven, research-informed practical podcast.

Listen to this episode to hear where they came from, and what they hope to provide with this podcast.

Resources

The Grading Conference

Some great resources to educate yourself about Alternative Grading:

• The Grading for Growth Blog
• The Grading Conference
• The Intentional Academia Blog

Recommended Books on Alternative Grading:

• Grading for Growth, by Robert Talbert and David Clark
• Specifications Grading, by Linda Nilsen
• Grading for Equity, by Joe Feldman

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Music

Country Rock performed by Lite Saturation

Country Rock by Lite Saturation is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.