August 06, 2024

56 - Alternative Grading as a Healing Process Part 2 of 2: Exploring the Harmful Wordviews that Undergird the Letter Grading System, an Interview with Dr. Jeff Anderson

50 minutes

In part 2 of our interview with Dr. Jeff Anderson, we delve deeply into ideas about the connections between grades, behaviourism, and anti-democracy. This is a conversation that goes well beyond the "how-to" of alternative grading and explores the WHY of grades and how they connect to some of the biggest challenges we currently face in our world.

Links

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About Behaviorism, B.F. Skinner
Beyond Freedom & Dignity, B. F. Skinner
Punished By Rewards, 25th Anniversary Edition, Alfie Kohn
Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Classroom (The Perspectives on Writing), Asao Inoue
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel Pink
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, Anders Ericsson
How Learning Works: Eight Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching, Susan Ambrose, et al
Wealth Supremacy, Marjorie Kelly
The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind, Jonah Berger
Talking About Leaving Revisited (downloads PDF), edited by Elaine Seymour and Anne-Barrier Hunter
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, Jane McAlevey

Resources

Writings and Interviews by Jeff Anderson

Jeff Anderson's How to Become a Strategic Deep Learner project
Jeff Anderson's Essential Ungrading Reading List
Jeff Anderson's Antiracist Reading List
Jeff Anderson's Ungrading Project
TPSE Math | Interview with Jeff Anderson (Foothill College) and Kate Stevenson (CSU Northridge)
A Conversation about Alternative Assessment (Companion Blog post to the TPSE Math Interview)

Jeff Anderson's Hosted Resources

Teaching Website
YouTube Channel
Learning Blog
Teaching Blog

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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