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Author:   Susan D. Blum ,  Alfie Kohn
Publisher:   West Virginia University Press
Imprint:   West Virginia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.495kg
ISBN:  

9781949199819

ISBN 10:   1949199819
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   30 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Foreword Alfie Kohn Introduction: Why Ungrade? Why Grade? Susan D. Blum Part I: Foundations and Models 1. How to Ungrade Jesse Stommel 2. What Going Gradeless Taught Me about Doing the """"Actual Work"""" Aaron Blackwelder 3. Just One Change (Just Kidding): Ungrading and Its Necessary Accompaniments Susan D. Blum 4. Shifting the Grading Mindset Starr Sackstein 5. Grades Stifle Student Learning. Can We Learn to Teach without Grades? Arthur Chiaravalli Part II: Practices 6. Let's Talk about Grading Laura Gibbs 7. Contract Grading and Peer Review Christina Katopodis and Cathy N. Davidson 8. Critique-Driven Learning and Assessment Christopher Riesbeck 9. A STEM Ungrading Case Study: A Reflection on First-Time Implementation in Organic Chemistry II Clarissa Sorensen-Unruh 10. The Point-less Classroom: A Math Teacher's Ironic Choice in Not Calculating Grades Gary Chu Part III: Reflections 11. Grade Anarchy in the Philosophy Classroom Marcus Schultz-Bergin 12. Conference Musings and The G Word Joy Kirr 13. Wile E. Coyote, the Hero of Ungrading John Warner Conclusion: Not Simple but Essential Susan D. BlumAcknowledgments Contributors Index

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I love this book. It undermines the mythology around grading, helping us understand that (a) grading is a construction, and a relatively recent one at that, and (b) we'd be better off without it--as would our students. Paul Hanstedt, author of Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses for a Complex World

I love this book. It undermines the mythology around grading, helping us understand that (a) grading is a con- struction, and a relatively recent one at that, and (b) we'd be better off without it--as would our students. Paul Hanstedt, author of Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses for a Complex World

Author Information

Susan D. Blum is professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. Her work on education builds on her academic specialties of linguistic, psychological, cultural, and educational anthropology. She is the author of My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture and """"I Love Learning; I Hate School"""": An Anthropology of College, among other works.

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