Title: Grading for Growth Subtitle: A Guide to Alternative Grading Practices That Promote Authentic Learning and Student Engagement in Higher Education Categories: Education, Higher Education, Learning Author: Robert Talbert Narrator: Michael Hacker Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC Release date: 02-10-2026 Language: English
Summary: Are you satisfied with your current and traditional grading system? Does it accurately reflect your students’ learning and progress? Can it be gamed? Does it lead to grade-grubbing and friction with your students? The authors of this book, David Clark and Robert Talbert–two professors of mathematics with input from colleagues across disciplines and institutions–offer listeners a fundamentally more effective and authentic approach to grading that they have implemented for over a decade. Grading for Growth helps educators navigate the complicated landscape of grading and assessment and includes grading systems such as Standards-Based Grading, Specifications Grading, and Ungrading.
Recognizing that traditional grading penalizes students in the learning process by depriving them of the formative feedback that is fundamental to improvement, the authors offer alternative strategies that encourage revision and growth. Alternative grading is concerned with students’ eventual level of understanding. This leads to big changes: Students take time to review past failures and learn from them. Conversations shift from “why did I lose a point for this” to productive discussions of content and process.
Alternative grading can be used successfully at any level, in any situation, and any discipline, in classes that range from seminars to large multi-section lectures.
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