Jesse Stommel shares about how to ungrade on episode 217 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The worst rubrics don’t create space for surprise or discovery.
—Jesse Stommel
Asking [students] to evaluate themselves ends up being a really important learning experience.
—Jesse Stommel
Something as complicated as learning can’t be reduced to … rows in a spreadsheet.
—Jesse Stommel
Just taking the grade off the table doesn’t do the harder work of demystifying that culture we’ve created in education.
—Jesse Stommel
Resources Mentioned
Digital Pedagogy Lab
Why I Don’t Grade, by Jesse Stommel
How to Ungrade, by Jesse Stommel
The New Education, by Cathy Davidson*
Cathy Davidson on Teaching in Higher Ed, Episode #169
Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow’s Website and Blog
Bryan Dewsbury on Teaching in Higher Ed, Episode #215
Parrish Waters at UMW
Blue Pulse
