How to grade creative assignments

Bonni Stachowiak shares some ideas for how to grade creative assignments on episode 430 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Alternative assignments can often be messy, but the rewards for students and teachers can be transformative.

-Bonni Stachowiak

Resources

How Do You Grade A Creative Assignment, by Bonni Stachowiak for EdSurge

Episode 36: What the Best College Teachers Do with Ken Bain

What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain

Tweet thread from Corinne Gressang, assistant professor of history at Erskine College about her Holocaust course

Episode 401: The Problem with Grades, by Josh Eyler

You Don’t Have to Wait for the Clock to Strike to Start Teaching, by Peter Newbury

How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching, by Josh Eyler

AAC&U; VALUE initiative and rubrics

Harvard’s Project Zero’s Visible Thinking Project

CAST’s UDL Action and Expression Guidelines

Harvard’s Alternative Assignments: Creative and Digital Resource

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