Jessieafer: Almost every conversation, grades end up being the elephant in the room. Oso if you're talking about ex mental assignment, design, you're certain to get the question of how would i grade that? He's on line at jessie's domel dot com and on twitter at jessafer.
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