The Grading Podcast

90 – Building a Community of Practice AND Even MORE Misuse of Mathematics!!!!!! In this week’s episode, Sharona and Boz sit down with Caroline Cormier and Françoise Arseneault-Hubert to discuss the movement towards alt gradin...

New episode! We talk to Françoise and Caroline from Quebec about building a community of practice and how alt grading is now bilingual. 😆

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87 – The Impact of AI on Alternative Grading: Talking with Dr. Robert Talbert Description In this episode we welcome back to the pod Dr. Robert Talbert. A mathematics professor at Grand Valley State University, author of books on ...

New episode out! This week we bring @roberttalbert.bsky.social back on the pod to discuss how AI is impacting his classes and his methods of assessing and grading. Check it out!

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84 – Standards Based Grading in Engineering, A Method for Focusing on Learning – an interview with Dr. Corin Bowen Description In this episode, Sharona and Bosley talk with Dr. Corin Bowen, an Engineering Education researcher and assistant professor in the Civil Engi...

New episode out! This week we talk about Standards Based Grading in Engineering with Dr. Corin Bowen. Join us for another great conversation!!

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81 – The role of DBER in researching the impact of Alternative Grading Practices, an interview with Dr. Jenny Momsen In this episode, Sharona and Bosley talk with Dr. Jenny Momsen, faculty member in the department of Biological Sciences at North Dakota State University and head of the Discipline-Based Education R…

Check out our new episode about the role of discipline based Ed research in evaluating the effectiveness of alt grading with Dr. Jenni Momsen!

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80: The Results are IN! Traditional Grading and Alternative Grading Went HEAD TO HEAD!!! What happened? In this episode, Sharona and Bosley share some of the top line results of a direct comparison between traditional grading and alternative grading. In a tightly coordinated course with many instruct…

The results are in! Traditional grading and alternative grading went head to head. Check out this week’s episode to find out what happened!!!

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Episodes | The Grading Podcast Reimagining Grading as a Tool for Student Success

New episode out! A fantastic interview with Phil Stringer about getting his whole school to go for standards-based grading.

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73 - Alt Grading in the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences: An Interview with Annie and Ed Ransom (And our FIRST Alt Grading Love Story!) Quickly and easily listen to The Grading Podcast for free!

New episode out! Meet Annie and Ed Ransom, a science teacher and a social science teacher both doing alt grading in their respective schools. It’s our very first alt grading love story!

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72 – Off the Mark – an Interview with author Dr. Jack Schneider Join Sharona and Bosley as we talk to Dr. Jack Schneider, one of the co-authors of the book “Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don’t Have To)”. In …

New Episode this week! Fantastic interview with author Jack Schneider about his book “Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don’t Have To)” check it out!

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71 – False Signals: The Mismatch Between Grades and Learning In this episode, Sharona and Bosley look at what some of the complications are when there is a mismatch between grades and actual learning. Based on some research coming out about grades not matchi…

New episode out! We talk about new reporting that shares the increasing mismatch between grades and learning.

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69 – Thinking Critically about Homework’s Role In Alternative Grading Let’s discuss the role of homework (or other effort pieces of learning) in an Alternatively Graded course in more depth. In this episode, Sharona and Boz look at a recent research study about…

Check out our episodes from the last few weeks!

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68 – Busting 4 Common “Myths” about Alternative Grading We’ve all heard them! The “criticisms” about alternative grading practices that don’t seem quite “right” but are hard to debunk in the moment. This is the episod…

Let’s bust some myths about alternative grading! Check out our new episode for real talk about what we can say to the critics!

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66 – Perseverance as a Critical Skill for Student Success in Alt Grading In this episode, Sharona and Bosley discuss student perseverance and how we might effectively help build it in our students. Looking at several research articles and providing concrete examples of …

Great episode out this week! Check out our discussion about the impact of student perseverance on student success in an alt graded class and how we as instructors can help students learn perseverance.

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Episodes | The Grading Podcast Reimagining Grading as a Tool for Student Success

Check out our new episodes! Last week we talked to Mary Reeves about using alt grading in a math 4 elementary teachers. This week we talk to a new teacher, Mariah Muller, about using alt grading from the very start of your career.

#altgrading #gradingforgrowth

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62 – Listener Questions: Learning Outcomes, Interim Grades, Effort, and Why we do this? In this episode we explore several questions sent in by listener’s of the pod. From Interim Grades, creating learning objectives for high school science courses and how to track effort to why…

New episode posted! We answer YOUR questions on Learning Outcomes, Interim Grades, the role of Effort, and why do we do what we do? Check it out!

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60 – The Role of Depth of Knowledge (DOK) in Aligning Assessments to Learning Outcomes: An Interview with Erik Francis Today on the podcast Sharona and Bosley sit down with Erik Francis. An international author, educator, presenter and professional development provider, Erik has over 30 years of experience in educa…

Another great interview on The Grading Podcast! Today we talk to Erik Francis about using Depth of Knowledge to align assessments to learning outcomes.

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58 – Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI: Diving into the Literature on Authentic Assessment The introduction of easily accessible large language models has reverberated through academic at all levels. For practitioners of alternative grading this has impacted in two major areas:Are the as…

We're on a roll! Check out our new episode about Authentic Assessment in the age of AI. Because what is Alt Grading without know how you are getting your evidence of learning?

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55 – Alternative Grading as a Healing Process Part 1 of 2: Exploring the Harmful Wordviews that Undergird the Letter Grading System, an Interview with Dr. Jeff Anderson In this, our first two-part episode on The Grading Podcast, Sharona and Bosley speak with Dr. Jeff Anderson, a community college math professor who has been thinking and writing about alternative a…

Please check out the last 2 episodes! An unbelievable conversation about Healing through Alternative Grading and looking at how Grading sits at the intersection of Behaviourism, Racism, & Anti-democracy. In two parts - here is a link to the first part.

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44 – Artificial Intelligence And Alt Grading: Challenges and Opportunities If you base your grades on “authentic assessment of student work”, then what do you do when technology catches up to the point where AI can do BETTER work than your students? And what a…

New episode out! We discuss some initial thoughts about the challenges and opportunities that arise in alt grading as a result of AI.

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41 – Second Chance Grading: How Small, Gentle Approach to Changing Grading Led to Research Into Alt Grading In this episode, Sharona and Bosley sit down with Dr. Brie Tripp and Dr. Rob Furrow, both from the University of California, Davis. Brie and Rob share their fascinating foray into introducing &#822…

Did you catch our incredible episode last week about the impact of second chance grading? Definitely worth a listen!

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42 – Metacognition, Power Structures in the Classroom, what is reasonable to expect of students? An Interview with Dr. Theresa Gaines. In this episode, Sharona and Boz sit down with Dr. Theresa Gaines (Gath) to talk about how they think about metacognition and power structures in the classroom. Having introduced ungrading in their…

New episodes out!

We have a fantastic interview with Dr. Theresa Gaines on metacognition power structures and what we can really expect of students in an alternatively graded course. Take a look!

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40 – Data-Driven Instruction: Using Learning Outcome Data to Talk with Students, Instructors, and Administrators In this episode, Sharona and Bosley go into more depth about how tracking student progress on learning outcomes can provide a wealth of data to use in supporting students, improving course designs,…

New episode! How the data from alt grading can drive meaningful conversations with students, fellow teachers, administrators and more!

#grading4growth
#thegradingpod

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37 – Introducing The Keynote Speakers for the 2024 Grading Conference plus What We’re Reading! In this episode, Sharona and Bosley introduce the three keynote speakers for the 2024 Grading Conference. They then share some of the new(er) and upcoming publications in the realm of grading refor…

New episode! Announcing the keynote speakers for this year’s Grading Conference as well as sharing some new and upcoming books we recommend!

#gradingforgrowth #thegradingconference

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36 – Teaching More by Grading Less (or Differently) – an Interview with Jeff Schinske, 10 years later In this episode, Sharona and Bosley sit down with Jeffrey Schinske, author of the article Teaching More by Grading Less (or Differently). Jeff is a professor of biology at Foothill College, a Calif…

We sat down with Professor Jeff Schinske (one of the keynotes) on The Grading Podcast this week. Jeff is one of the co-authors of one of our favorite articles: Teaching More by Grading Less (or Differently). What a phenomenal conversation! Take a listen: thegradingpod.com/episodes/36-...

35 – An Interview with Dr. Joshua Bowman: Alternative Grading for over a decade, the Importance of Blog Posts In this week’s episode, Sharona and Bosley sit down with Dr. Joshua Bowman, mathematics professor at Pepperdine in California. Join us as we explore how the seeds sown through a blog over ten…

Fantastic episode this week with one of our inspirations, Dr. Josh Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social !

Join us as we talk about alt grading, blogging, and the impact of his work after 10 years! (We hope to still be talked about after 10 years!!)

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33 – An Interview with Dr. Thomas Guskey: A Journey through the History of Grading Reform Efforts We are so very excited to be joined this week by Dr. Thomas Guskey, one of the pioneers in the area of grading reform and a huge inspiration to so many of us in this community. Join us for this ext…

New episode out! Join us for an incredible interview as we sit down with Dr. Thomas Guskey, author of 25+ books on grading & learning and over 250 articles & other publications, including “The Case Against Percentage Grades”. You don’t want to miss this interview!!

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32 – Active Learning and Alternative Grading: When Intentional Pedagogy and Intentional Assessment Truly Align On this week’s episode, Sharona and Bosley speak with Dr. Theron Hitchman (TJ) about his experience with “accidentally” changing his grading while intentionally changing his class…

New episode out! When Active Learning and Alternative Grading work together, great things happen! Join us for this incredible interview with Dr. Theron Hitchman math professor at the University of Northern Iowa.
@profnoodlearms.bsky.social

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30 – Listener Request – A Deep Dive into the Weeds of our Grading Architecture By your request! A listener from New York City wrote in asking us to talk in more detail about our grading systems, what we have done right, what we have messed up – so we did! Sharona and Bo…

New episode out! Per the request of a listener, Sharona and Bosley go into more detail about the specifics of the evolution of their various grading architectures. Going into the weeds!!!

#gradingforgrowth

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29 – The Current State and Future Wishes for SoTL in Alt Grading – with Dr. Drew Lewis Let’s discuss SoTL research! What is it, what are some of the things that have been done to apply SoTL research to Alt Grading, and where do we want to see it go? Dr. Drew Lewis returns to th…

It's Tuesday! So that means a new episode!!! Let's talk further about SoTL research, Dr. Drew Lewis joins us as we talk about what has been done, and what we think needs to be done.

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26 – Active Learning and Alternative Grading: An Introduction to Team-Based Inquiry Learning with ... Welcome to 2024! In our first new episode of the year, Sharona sits down with Drew Lewis and Steven Clontz to discuss their Team-Based Inquiry Learning project as well as other parts of the growing…

New year = new episodes! Join us as we talk to @drew-lewis.com and @clontz.org about active learning and alt grading! #gradingforgrowth #thegradingpod

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23 – Holidays 2023: Replay – Developing Your Grading Architecture We’re heading into the holiday break, so over the next few weeks we’ll be replaying some previous episodes while adding some thoughts as we conclude the Fall semester of 2023. So enjoy …

It’s the end of the semester, and holiday break. So of course we’re looking ahead to next semester and taking a break! We’re replaying some planning episodes for the next weeks with some added thoughts. Enjoy! thegradingpod.com/episodes/23-...