How to Ungrade, with Jesse Stommel

Jesse Stommel shares about how to ungrade on episode 217 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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Quotes from the episode

The worst rubrics don’t create space for surprise or discovery.
—Jesse Stommel

Asking [students] to evaluate themselves ends up being a really important learning experience.
—Jesse Stommel

Something as complicated as learning can’t be reduced to … rows in a spreadsheet.
—Jesse Stommel

Just taking the grade off the table doesn’t do the harder work of demystifying that culture we’ve created in education.
—Jesse Stommel
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Resources Mentioned

• Digital Pedagogy Lab
• Why I Don’t Grade, by Jesse Stommel
• How to Ungrade, by Jesse Stommel
• The New Education, by Cathy Davidson*
• Cathy Davidson on Teaching in Higher Ed, Episode #169
• Peter Elbow
• Peter Elbow’s Website and Blog
• Bryan Dewsbury on Teaching in Higher Ed, Episode #215
• Parrish Waters at UMW
• Blue Pulse

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