Refining the Grade
Like most things to do with teaching, the way I ungrade is always evolving. When I started my practice, some seven years ago now, I still awarded grades on major assignments, but I introduced student self-evaluations of each piece, and met with students to collaboratively decide on what their grade would be. Gradually, I moved to more and more feedback, and fewer and fewer letter grades, and for a good couple of years now, I’ve had students assign themselves their…