I’m back from taking a few days away for the holidays and to get the new semester underway. Before the break, I had posted a I’m back from taking a few days away for the holidays and to get the new ...

To say that the last two years have been tough on everyone would be an understatement. Many of us, myself included, have had to rearrange our priorities. In my case, a decreased bandwidth in my day-to ...

Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...

For many professors, grading student work is the least enjoyable part of their jobs. “None of us get into teaching to grade,” says Renée Link, a professor of teaching in the Chemistry Department at ...

Most of the grading methods and practices referred to as “alternative” today fall under the umbrella term “ungrading.” Ungrading is the practice of wholly removing grades from all formative and ...