Episodes
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28 – Developing and Using Technology Tools to Author Assessments – with Steven Clontz
In this week’s episode, Dr. Steven Clontz returns to talk in more detail about creating and using open source tools to support aspects of alt grading such as authoring assessment banks to support the reattempts needed in many alt grading systems. Join us as we look at how CheckIt, Dr. Clontz’s open authoring tool for…
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27 – Developing Your Course Calendar
In this episode, Sharona and Bosley take a detailed look at what goes into developing a course calendar for an alternatively graded course. How do we schedule all those “reattempts” into a term? And what impact does that have on our organization and communication with our students? Links Please note – any books linked here…
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26 – Active Learning and Alternative Grading: An Introduction to Team-Based Inquiry Learning with Dr. Drew Lewis and Dr. Steven Clontz
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 open resource community. We look at the integration of Alternative Grading with active and inquiry-based learning, learn about TBIL, and…
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25 – Happy New Year 2024! Replay – Getting Buy-in
It’s the last of our replay episodes as we finish out our holiday break. As we start to think about next semester, we felt it was a good time to think about how we will begin building buy-in from the very beginning. Enjoy as we discuss options for getting buy-in with students and others. Links…
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24 – Holiday 2023: Revisiting Gathering Evidence of Learning and Developing Proficiency Scales (from Episode 7)
As we continue to enjoy the holiday season, Sharona and Bosley revisit their own grading architecture decisions and discuss some things they are thinking about for the next semester. From rethinking how we collect the evidence of learning and considering how our proficiency scales impact the design of our grading architecture, semester breaks are often…
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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 your holiday break! In this episode, we describe the four decisions that make up the “Grading Architecture” of an alternatively graded course. How…
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22 – Equity, Inclusion and Alt Grading in Biology: An Interview with Katie Mattaini
Dr. Katie Mattaini is an lecturer in Biology at Tufts University. In this episode, we talk with Katie about how to think about equity and inclusion when designing a course using alt grading. Katie uses a range of alt grading practices from standards-based grading in into biology to collaborative grading (or ungrading) in an upper…
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21 – Alt Grading in Large Chemistry Classes: An Interview with Dr. Eden Tanner
On the podcast this week we speak with Dr. Eden Tanner, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The University of Mississippi. Listen to hear about using alternative grading in the context of a 170 person general chemistry course. Eden has a fascinating take on approaching alternative grading from a research mindset, and how that…
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20 – The Human Impact of our Assessments on Students, What story do your assessments tell about a student? An Interview with Sean Nank
Coming to you from the California Mathematics Council – South annual conference, Sharona and Bosley sit down for a wonderful conversation with Dr. Sean Nank. Sean is an adjunct professor at California State University San Marcos, a full professor at the American College of Education, as well as a high school math teacher in the…
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19 – Thanksgiving 2023: Listener Feedback – Entering our Own Feedback Loop, Our First Replay
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! This is the first holiday we have taken since launching the podcast, so on this episode we’re doing things a little differently! Our first segment is a response segment to some thoughtful, effective feedback that we were given from a listener. We really appreciated the time they took to write to us…