The COVID-19 pandemic caused the flaws of traditional grading systems to become even
more apparent. In response, a growing number of educators are transitioning their …

Points-based grading, though now traditional, faces powerful critiques: Such grading creates
a low road to passing, it undermines motivation, it wastes time, and it causes stress. It …

Listening is essential to student learning. But how can instructors build practices of listening
into their courses? This article makes the case for adopting a listening-centered approach to …

Ungrading is a constellation of pedagogical practices that seek to recenter the educational
experience of learners as individuals by using detailed feedback rather than grades to …

Much has been written in the grading literature regarding the continued use of traditional
teacher grading practices that impede effective teaching and learning, yet teachers continue …

Assessment is a relation of power in higher education. It is not only about the criteria, the
methods, or the grading systems; it is also about how we make sense of potential, capability …

In the standard classroom environment, children very quickly internalise the difference
between learning and play. Unfortunately this, too often, is the distinction between work and …

This chapter examines the concept of interactivity, or meaningful decision making, as a pillar
of the challenge based learning approach. This is part of a broader notion of exploration …

The purpose of this interpretative phenomenological qualitative study was to obtain an
understanding of the lived experiences of instructors in higher education who had …

Drawing on qualitative methods, I engaged in a practitioner inquiry (Cochran-Smith & Lytle,
2009) to investigate the use of contract grading to promote educational freedom (hooks …