Alternative grading is getting more and more press coverage. Some of it good, some of it not so good. In this episode, Sharona and Bosley look carefully at a couple of recent articles about alternative grading and discuss whether the critiques contained in them are valid or questionable.

Links to the articles discussed, and some others:

• No Zeros Grading is Sold as an Equity Shortcut. It's Not.
• Your Kids Aren't Learning: Mastery-Based Learning + Equitable Grading = Fraud
• Debunking Myths of Standards-Based Grading
• Schools are adopting mastery-based grading. How does it work? (includes citations from Sharona Krinsky)

Links

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Specific links here.

Resources

The Grading Conference - an annual, online conference exploring Alternative Grading in Higher Education & K-12.

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 (Please note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!):

• Grading for Growth, by Robert Talbert and David Clark
• Specifications Grading, by Linda Nilsen
• Undoing the Grade, by Jesse Stommel
• Grading for Equity, by Joe Feldman

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