Ungrading Underground: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (And What to Do Instead)

After reading and discussing Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (Blum, 2020), members of an ETE Learning Circle were surprised to learn that ungrading isn't a new way to do less work, but a philosophical method, with evidence, for re-connecting students to their own learning through self-assessment and feedback. After a brief introduction of the book's main concepts, each will share their favorite ungrading practice for a college classroom and how they have implemented it in their instruction. Examples include the point-less classroom, contract grading, peer review, critique-driven assessment, individual student/faculty conferences, portfolios, and delayed marking, etc.