Episodes
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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…
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18 – The Sportscaster of Alternative Grading: An Interview with Matt Townsley
Dr. Matt Townsley is an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Northern Iowa and a former district adminstrator and high school math teacher. In addition to being an accomplished faculty coach and author of many books about Alternative Grading, Matt also has the distinction of having presented the highest energy presentation ever…
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17 – An Entire School Doing Alternative Grading? Meet the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering
Today we welcome to the pod the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering. A public residential magnet high school in Alabama, this school was built from the ground up around the principles of alternative grading. In this episode, Sharona speaks with the President of ASCTE, Matt Massey, and the lead English Language Arts teacher…
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16 – Critiquing the Critiques: Two Recent Articles About Alternative Grading
Alternative grading is getting more and more press coverage. Some of it good, some of it not so good. In this episode, Sharona and Bosley look carefully at a couple of recent articles about alternative grading and discuss whether the critiques contained in them are valid or questionable. Links to the articles discussed, and some…
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15 – SoTL: Alternative Grading as a Classroom Practice and a Dissertation Research Topic – an Interview with Ashleigh Fox
On this episode we welcome Ashleigh Fox. Ashleigh is a writing professor at Community College of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania, and is doing her dissertation on best practices in Alternative Grading in Higher Education. In this conversation, we discuss successes and “not yet” successes in her courses, her dissertation research into Alternative Grading, as well…
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14 – Undoing the Grade: An Interview with Jesse Stommel
On this episode, Bosley and Sharona speak with Dr. Jesse Stommel about his new book Undoing the Grade and about all the conversations about grades that we should be having. We touch on everything from 1000 point grading systems and the impact of Learning Management Systems to ChatGPT and seeing students as human beings. We…