Don't think about removing grading from your entire class. Can you create grade free zones? So for example, what if there were no grades for the first third of the term,. And so in a sense, you could talk about that firstThird of the class as a developmental space... and then we're going to get sort of crept for the other work ... Jessie: "We should be thinking about how we can start to dip our toes in"
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