Jesse captured the reason to #ungrade best when he wrote this tweet recently: • Grades are not good incentive or effective feedback • Grades are not good markers of learning • Grades encourage competitiveness over collaboration • Grades pit students and teachers against each other • Grades are mechanisms of institutional control • Grades aren’t … Continue reading Ungrading: Prototype III (Envisioned Large Lecture Implementation in General Chemistry I)
Month: January 2020
Ungrading: Prototype II (General Chemistry II)
I decided to try ungrading in my general chemistry classes this past Fall (2019), but I wanted to give my students the power to have a say (i.e. vote) for the ungrading if they wanted to try it. The vote was administered via a google form: The vast majority of my students (97%) agreed to … Continue reading Ungrading: Prototype II (General Chemistry II)