This episode looks at how providing students with some agency in their assignment and assessment choices can produce more equitable and engaged learning. Katherine looks at some of the challenges and rewards of building flexibility into our assignments and also discusses the range of flexibility that can be built into a course--from allowing students some choice across shared assessments to partnering with students to shape the ways they will demonstrate learning outcomes and how such projects will be assessed.

Sources referenced in and consulted for this episode:

Cook-Sather, Alison, et al. Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching: A Guide for Faculty. Jossey-Bass, 2014.

Gabriel, Kathleen F. Creating the Path to Success in the Classroom: Teaching to Close the Graduation Gap for Minority, First-Generation, and Academically Unprepared Students. Stylus, 2018.

Irwin, Brian, and Stuart Hepplestone. “Examining Increased Flexibility in Assessment Formats.” Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, vol. 37, no. 7, 2012, pp. 773-85.