Episodes
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92 – Researching Grading Reform: Building the Evidence to Change the System
In this episode, Sharona and Boz dive into what research around grading reform might look like. From the types of studies to the areas of interest and some options for focus. We look at what’s been done, what’s missing, and how the Center for Grading Reform is planning to launch a new initiative to build…
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91 – Feedback: Improving How We Give It and How Students Use It
This week we welcome Joe Zeccola back to the podcast. In this episode, Sharona, Boz and Joe look at how we give feedback, how students use it, and how we make both the giving of feedback and the student use of feedback easier, more useful, and more in line with our goals for our students.…
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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 grading in Quebec. Beginning with a description of the CEGEP system (pronounced say-ghep) that serves as a bridge between K-11 education and university/technical tracks we then explore how Caroline and Françoise have built a…
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89 – AI and CheckIt: Tools and Methods for Gathering Evidence of Learning (Making Assessment Writing Easier)
This week Sharona and Boz share some ideas, tools and methods for making assessment writing easier including AI, CheckIt (programmable assessment generation) and intentional alignment of content and assessments. Links Please note – any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Clicking on them and purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for…
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88 – Unearned Grades: Remaking the Conversation about Grade “Inflation”
Description In this episode, Sharona and Bosley tackle the conversation about “Grade Inflation”. A commonly used term that is rarely defined, we look at what the “problem” is with grade “inflation”, how we would define grade “inflation” (as well as grade “deflation”) and how to address it when it is leveled as a potential problem…
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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 Flipped Learning and Grading for Growth, Robert joins us to discuss his struggles with the increasing use of AI tools in his alternatively graded classes and how he is revising…
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86 – Traditional Grading Revisited: Deficiencies and Beliefs
Description In this episode, Sharona and Bosley look at some new(ish) literature about traditional grades in a more professional setting – Pharmacy Education. If the ultimate goal of many degree programs is to get a professional degree or license, what is being done with grading at that level and how might we leverage those choices…
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85 – Instructor Beliefs and Their Role in the Classroom – with Dr. Patrick Morriss
In this week’s episode we welcome Dr. Patrick Morriss back to the pod to discuss how instructor beliefs, about our students, our subject areas, ourselves, impact our classrooms and drive the educational outcomes of our students. Links Please note – any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Clicking on them and purchasing through…
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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 Engineering department at California State University Los Angeles. We talk about student motivation and engagement, the opportunities that standards-based grading has provided Dr. Bowen’s students, and what it was link to come in…
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83 – Starting the Conversation About Grading with Others Before They Realize You Are Talking About Grading
Join us as we explore small ways to open a conversation about grading with other people, without them necessarily realizing that its a conversation about grading. In this episode, Sharona and Bosley talk about 7 ways you can crack the door open on grading. Everything from using the four pillars to finding common ground and…