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Sara Hendren is one of those thinkers who, for me, bring deep and surprising insight to whatever they turn their attention to. Here she summarizes a series of blog posts considering what college she would like her children to attend – and in doing so develops a compelling and refreshing vision of what it is that higher education should strive for.
Super simple qualitative assessment scheme with only four levels, based on two steps of yes/no judgements.
Newsletter about alternative grading. Some good posts:
Susan Blum discusses the response to her seminal edited volume Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) and points to different approaches.
Collection of essays covering more than 20 years of Jesse Stommel's influential writing and thinking on ungrading.
Short novel. Fictional account (from 1971!) of a high school deciding whether to go gradeless or not. Teachers, students, and parents discuss the pros and cons of different approaches. The plot includes the social aspect of institutional change.
Erik Tempelman (TU Delft, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering) argues that we should not grade MSc theses but instead simply judge whether students deserves their diploma or not. Some interesting comments, such as Renee Wever's description of the Swedish system.