2024 Grading Conference - Video, Chat and Slides Links

Thursday, June 13

• 10:30 Welcome and Keynote -- Laila McCloud -- Who is ‘we’?: Naming instructor positionality’s influence on grading practices.

• 1:30 Concurrent Sessions
  • Acceptance of Alternative Grading
    Video | Slides | Chat
    • 1:30 Communicating Alternative Grading with Students, Colleagues, and Administrators (John Estes)

    • 1:50 Can Standards-Based Grading Exist in a Department with a Grade Distribution Policy? (Luvreet Sangha)

    • 2:10 Effectively Introducing an Alternative Grading Framework to Students (Anthony Lince)

  • Strategies & Practices (Part 1)
    Video | Slides | Chat
    • 1:30 Ungrading as Course Design: Choosing Learning Over Coverage (Leigha H McReynolds)

    • 1:50 The Practice of Grading Practices (Amy Parrott & Jason K. Belnap)

  • Disciplinary Applications (Part 1)
    Video | Slides | Chat
    • 1:30 Lessons Learned from The Archive of MAT257 (Ehsaan Hossain)

    • 1:50 Implementing a Novel, Alternative Grading System for a Flipped Graduate Coding Class (PJ Van Camp)

    • 2:10 Using Pink Time Assignments in Online Engineering Graduate Courses to Foster Motivation and Increase Student Belonging Based on Self-Determination Theory (Andrea M. Ragonese)

  • Introduction to Alternative Grading: The Four Pillars
    Video | Slides | Chat (Sharona Krinsky & Robert Bosley)

• 3:00 Concurrent Sessions
  • Student Perspectives
    Video | Slides | Chat
    • 3:00 Ungrading, Learning, and Motivation (Ashleigh Fox)

    • 3:20 Lessons from a Class on Grading in Higher Education: We Can Change Students' Perspectives (Daniel Guberman and Sabrina Hinojosa)

    • 3:40 Gains in self-competence in classrooms using active learning and mastery-based grading (Joel Davis, Heather Wilson-Ashwroth, & Melissa Reeves)

  • Strategies & Practices (Part 2)
    Video | Slides | Chat
    • 3:00 Using Technology to Aid in Implementing Specifications Grading into College Mathematics Courses using a Points-Based System (Jason Elsinger)

    • 3:40 Shifting the Focus: Harmonizing the Relational and the Technological in Specifications Grading (Keri Cronin & Alisa Cunnington)

  • Disciplinary Applications (Part 2)
    Video | Slides | Chat
    • 3:00 Grading for Growth in the Calculus Sequence (Jennifer Moorhouse, Nina Vazquez, Lipika Deka, & Jeffrey Wand)

    • 3:40 How can our assessment practices support the development of mathematical habits of mind in first-year students? (Maye Montoya)

  • Designing the Grading Architecture for an Alternatively Graded Course (Sharona Krinsky & Robert Bosley)
    Video | Slides | Chat

• 4:30 Concurrent Sessions
  • Roundtable: Equitable Grading in the Post-Secondary Classroom (Shantha Smith & Nikole Joshi)
    Video | Slides | Chat

  • Education Research (Part 1)
    (This session was not recorded.) | Slides
    • 4:30 Faculty Perceptions on Grading and Assessment (Dennis L. Rudnick, Bridget Arend, Mark I. Koester, Phillip E. Bernhardt, and Mehpara Qadir)

    • 5:00 Does specifications grading yield the expected student outcomes? Insights from large-enrollment chemistry courses (Brandon J. Yik, Haleigh Machost, Adriana C. Steifer, Michael S. Palmer, Lisa Morkowchuk, & Marilyne Stains)

  • Workshop: Ungrading the Unessay (Christopher Adamson & Isaiah F. A. Cohen)
    Video | Slides | Chat

  • Roundtable: Implementing Ungrading (Jeff Ford & Martin Lang)
    Video | Slides | Chat

• 5:30 Closing Session
  Video | Slides | Chat

Friday, June 14

• 10:30 Welcome Back & Keynote -- Jeff Schinske -- Content Coverage as a Potential Barrier to Innovation in Grading

• 1:00 Concurrent Sessions
  • DEI and Alternative Grading
    Video | Slides | Chat
    • 1:00 Lessons in Ungrading from Disability Studies (Sarah Silverman)

    • 1:40 Making the Case for Unmaking the Grade: Tracing Liberatory Pedagogies as a Framework for Ungrading (Kris De Welde)

  • Strategies and Practices (Part 3)
    Video | Slides | Chat
    • 1:00 Which type of alternative grading is right for your course? (Melanie Butler)

    • 1:30 15 Years Later: The Evolutionary Nature of Grading Conferences (Jill Dahlman & Piper Selden)

  • Disciplinary Applications (Part 3)
    Video | Slides | Chat
    • 1:00 Adapting Ungrading Principles to Large-Enrollment STEM Lab Courses (Veronica Berns)

    • 1:40 Enhancing Preservice Teachers' Conceptual Understanding (Monica Bliss)

• 2:30 Concurrent Sessions
  • Support & Reform
    Video | Slides | Chat
    • 2:30 Towards Student-Centered Assessment: Learning from Brown University’s Grading Policy Reform of 1969 (Angela Muir)

    • 2:50 A University-Wide Practicum on Reimagining Assessment for Instructors: Collaborations and Constraints (Eun Sandoval-Lee, Michelle Guittar, & Jennifer Keys)

    • 3:10 Building Support for Alternative Grading: Communities of Practice Beyond the Institution (Marney Pratt, Katie Mattaini, & Jayme Dyer)

  • Strategies & Practices (Part 4)
    Video | Slides | Chat
    • 2:30 Streamlining Specifications Grading in a Multi-Section General Physics Course (Lynne Lawson & Joseph Ribaudo)

    • 3:00 Taking the leap: How I transitioned to Grading for Growth in a semester (Warren Shull)

  • Disciplinary Applications (Part 4)
    Video | Slides | Chat
    • 2:30 Just Ask: Offering Students Five Choices of Grading Policy in Writing Courses (Jeremy Levine)

    • 2:50 Revolutionizing Marketing Education: Specs Grading and AI Integration (Elizabeth Parkins)

    • 3:10 Student-directed learning through assignment choice in two linguistics courses (Christopher Geissler & Morgan Rood)

• 4:00 Concurrent Sessions
  • Workshop: Alternative Grading as a Gateway to Effective Program Assessment (Melissa E. Ko)
    Video | Slides | Chat

  • Workshop: Active Assessment for Active Learning (Simone Sisneros-Thiry)
    Video | Slides | Chat

  • Workshop: Grading Risks (Alexis Teagarden, Josh Botvin, Will Higgins, & Amanda Rioux)
    Video | Slides | Chat

• 5:00 Closing Session
  Video | Slides | Chat

Saturday, June 15

• 10:30 Welcome Back & Keynote -- Susan D. Blum -- Ungrading Four Years On: A Movement, A Backlash, A Rebranding, A Story

• 1:00 Concurrent Sessions
  • Education Research (Part 2)
    Video | Slides | Chat
    • 1:00 Why We Grade (Margaret Chapman)

    • 1:30 Exploring Undergraduate Students’ Experiences with Standards-Based Grading (Louis Leblond)

  • Strategies & Practices (Part 5)
    Video | Slides | Chat
    • 1:00 Beyond Ungrading: Designing Writing Assignments for Self-Reflection, Belonging, and Engagement (Elizabeth Kubek)

    • 1:40 Exam wrappers: An instructional practice with promise (and some perils) (Jenni Momsen & Elena Bray Speth)

  • Disciplinary Applications (Part 5)
    Video | Slides | Chat
    • 1:00 Grading Catalyst: Standards-based grading for a selective first-year engineering program (Casey Haskins, Allison Quiroga, & Moses Olayemi)

    • 1:40 Standards-based Grading in Calculus with Precalculus (Jacquelyn Rische)

• 2:30 Concurrent Sessions
  • Roundtable: Leveraging an Army of Peer Tutors for Test Corrections (Luvreet Sangha)
    Video | Slides | Chat

  • Strategies & Practices (Part 6)
    Video | Slides | Chat
    • 2:30 “It’s Dangerous to go Alone, Take This”: Gamified Grading and Progress-Tracker Maps (Arielle C McKee)

    • 2:50 Boosting Student Agency: Digital Badging as a Form of Alternative Assessment (Noël Ingram)

  • Roundtable: Change Leadership in Alternative Grading: How Do We Move the Needle? (Sharona Krinsky & Robert Bosley)
    Video | Slides | Chat

• 4:00 Concurrent Sessions
  • Education Research (Part 3)
    Video | Slides | Chat
    • 4:00 Grading Differently: A Multi-Classroom, Multi-Disciplinary Study in Grading Culture (Laura Cruz)

    • 4:30 Making space for meaningful learning: Retesting Standards in Introductory Biology (Tara Slominski & Jenni Momsen)

  • Workshop: Taking a Holistic Look at Alternative Grading Strategies Through the Use of Student Personas and an Intersectional Lens (Lauren Singelmann & Neeko Bochkarev)
    Video | Slides | Chat

  • Roundtable: Questioning the Status Quo: Alternative Grading Dynamics/Processes in Higher Education (Lexi Almy)
    Video | Slides | Chat

• 5:00 Closing Session
  Video | Slides | Chat