"I'm not an inn box for student work. Instead, what i am is a curious listener and a sort of expert feedback giver of student work," she says. "So i have them either put put their work on a blog, put their work in a museum gallery, and then i go to the work." 'We're not receptacles. You know, we've built a whole system that's designed... why do we receive work as though we're in boxes? But the problem there is ... it creates this transactional relationship between us and students'
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