Alternative Grading Practices and Student Motivation

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Exploring the implementation of alternative grading practices in a classroom setting, along with the impact of grades on student motivation, cheating, and test anxiety. Recommendations for resources on alternative grading practices are also shared towards the end of the chapter.

David Clark discusses using alternative grading practices to foster student learning on episode 511 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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As soon as there's a grade assigned, students tend to lose the intrinsic motivation they might have to learn these things and focus entirely on that extrinsic grade aspect.

Does this represent what I really care about?
-David Clark

Most of us are used to giving feedback in some way, but making it helpful is the tough part.
-David Clark

A reassessment always needs some reflective parts, some metacognition, because that’s part of the feedback loop.
-David Clark

People aren’t going to remember everything that they’ve learned in our classes for all time.
-David Clark

As soon as there’s a grade assigned, students tend to lose the intrinsic motivation they might have to learn these things and focus entirely on that extrinsic grade aspect.
-David Clark