When:
Thursday, February 2, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Where: Online
Audience: Faculty/Staff
Cost: Free
Contact:
Teaching & Learning Technologies
Group: Northwestern IT Teaching and Learning Technologies
Category: Training
Adapting Ungrading Principles to Large-Enrollment STEM Lab Courses
Ungrading – an assessment philosophy which deemphasizes grading by “points” – offers many benefits to students, including transparency, flexibility, and forgiveness in assessments. Most often, Ungrading approaches are seen in small seminar or writing-centric courses due to the high time cost in providing written feedback to students. In this interactive presentation, we will discuss how Ungrading ideas inspired a change in the assessment structure of general chemistry lab courses at Northwestern. You’ll hear how Veronica and co-lab director Katie Gesmundo adapted a Specifications Grading model to fit courses of 100-450 students that heavily rely on teaching assistants. You will also have an opportunity to identify core ideas of Ungrading compatible with your own course formats, and discuss actionable ways to incorporate them into your grading scheme.
The work at the heart of this discussion was funded by a Weinberg College Summer Teaching Grant, co-authored with Assistant Professor of Instruction Katie Gesmundo, titled “Reconsidering methods of grading for lab reports in General Chemistry”.
This talk is a part of the TEACHxpert speaker series.