A common pushback that practitioners of alternative grading get is that students "don't know how they are doing". In this episode, Sharona and Bosley take a hard look at progress tracking and communicating progress to students. We include a variety of examples of progress trackers provided by several different alternative graders and talk about the ways in which progress tracking is important, regardless of the grading system in use.

Links

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Progress Trackers

• Tracking Mastery Worksheet Math 1090
• Example of MTH 210 Grade Record sheet W23
• Example of 85-310 grades checklist - spring 2024, by Abigail Noyce
• EGI Grade Check_Zeccola AP Lang, by Joe Zeccola and Robert Bosley
• Example CS 120 Learner progress tracker, by Dave Largent
• Sample Grade Sheet - by Abby Noble

Other Resources Mentioned in the Episode

• TED Talk: The Beauty of Data Visualization, David McCandless
• Getting Started Part 5: How to Determine When a Student has Completed a Learning Outcome and How to Roll it All Up Into a Final Grade
• Episode 48 – Implementation Challenges and Opportunities: A Conversation with Becky Peppler and Don Smith on Working with K-12 School Districts to implement Alternative Grading
• How to make and use grade trackers, Grading for Growth Blog, by David Clark

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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