The Grading Podcast
Grading is an extremely important and largely unexamined piece of the classroom puzzle. In this weekly podcast, Sharona Krinsky and Robert Bosley, two long time classroom instructors from the K-12 and Higher Ed worlds, explore the nuts and bolts of grading student work. From looking at traditional grading practices to other types of grading such as alternative grading, equitable grading, ungrading, and more, join us as we and our guests provide the research, practices, and details needed to create a more effective grading practice that supports student learning and success. For more information, check out our website, https://www.thegradingpod.com
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 114
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
33 - An Interview with Dr. Thomas Guskey: A Journey through the History of Grading Reform Efforts
We are so very excited to be joined this week by Dr. Thomas Guskey, one of the pioneers in the area of grading reform and a huge inspiration to so many of us in this community. Join us for this extre…
32 - Active Learning and Alternative Grading: When Intentional Pedagogy and Intentional Assessment Truly Align
On this week's episode, Sharona and Bosley speak with Dr. Theron Hitchman (TJ) about his experience with "accidentally" changing his grading while intentionally changing his classroom pedagogy to bri…
31 -The Role of "Effort" or "Work" in an Alternative Grading Architecture and the Relationship with Due Dates
Two of the most frequent questions that come up when introducing instructors to alternative grading are "What about homework/effort?" and "What about due dates?" In this episode, Sharona and Bosley l…
30 - Listener Request - A Deep Dive into the Weeds of our Grading Architecture
By your request! A listener from New York City wrote in asking us to talk in more detail about our grading systems, what we have done right, what we have messed up - so we did! Sharona and Bosley tal…
29 - The Current State and Future Wishes for SoTL in Alt Grading - with Dr. Drew Lewis
Let's discuss SoTL research! What is it, what are some of the things that have been done to apply SoTL research to Alt Grading, and where do we want to see it go? Dr. Drew Lewis returns to the pod to…
28 - Developing and Using Technology Tools to Author Assessments - with Steven Clontz
In this week's episode, Dr. Steven Clontz returns to talk in more detail about creating and using open source tools to support aspects of alt grading such as authoring assessment banks to support the…
27 - Developing Your Course Calendar
In this episode, Sharona and Bosley take a detailed look at what goes into developing a course calendar for an alternatively graded course. How do we schedule all those "reattempts" into a term? And …
26 - Active Learning and Alternative Grading: An Introduction to Team-Based Inquiry Learning with Dr. Drew Lewis and Dr. Steven Clontz
Welcome to 2024! In our first new episode of the year, Sharona sits down with Drew Lewis and Steven Clontz to discuss their Team-Based Inquiry Learning project as well as other parts of the growing o…
25 - Happy New Year 2024! Replay - Getting Buy-in
It's the last of our replay episodes as we finish out our holiday break. As we start to think about next semester, we felt it was a good time to think about how we will begin building buy-in from the…
24 - Holiday 2023: Revisiting Gathering Evidence of Learning and Developing Proficiency Scales (from Episode 7)
As we continue to enjoy the holiday season, Sharona and Bosley revisit their own grading architecture decisions and discuss some things they are thinking about for the next semester. From rethinking …
23 - Holidays 2023: Replay - Developing Your Grading Architecture
We're heading into the holiday break, so over the next few weeks we'll be replaying some previous episodes while adding some thoughts as we conclude the Fall semester of 2023. So enjoy your holiday b…
22 - Equity, Inclusion and Alt Grading in Biology: An Interview with Katie Mattaini
Dr. Katie Mattaini is an lecturer in Biology at Tufts University. In this episode, we talk with Katie about how to think about equity and inclusion when designing a course using alt grading. Katie us…
21 - Alt Grading in Large Chemistry Classes: An Interview with Dr. Eden Tanner
On the podcast this week we speak with Dr. Eden Tanner, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The University of Mississippi. Listen to hear about using alternative grading in the conte…
20 - The Human Impact of our Assessments on Students, What story do your assessments tell about a student? An Interview with Sean Nank
Coming to you from the California Mathematics Council - South annual conference, Sharona and Bosley sit down for a wonderful conversation with Dr. Sean Nank. Sean is an adjunct professor at Californ…
19 - Thanksgiving 2023: Listener Feedback - Entering our Own Feedback Loop, Our First Replay
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! This is the first holiday we have taken since launching the podcast, so on this episode we're doing things a little differently!
Our first segment is a response segment to…
18 - The Sportscaster of Alternative Grading: An Interview with Matt Townsley
Dr. Matt Townsley is an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Northern Iowa and a former district adminstrator and high school math teacher. In addition to being an accom…
17 - An Entire School Doing Alternative Grading? Meet the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering
Today we welcome to the pod the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering. A public residential magnet high school in Alabama, this school was built from the ground up around the principles …
16 - Critiquing the Critiques: Two Recent Articles About Alternative Grading
Alternative grading is getting more and more press coverage. Some of it good, some of it not so good. In this episode, Sharona and Bosley look carefully at a couple of recent articles about alternati…
15 - SoTL: Alternative Grading as a Classroom Practice and a Dissertation Research Topic - an Interview with Ashleigh Fox
On this episode we welcome Ashleigh Fox. Ashleigh is a writing professor at Community College of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania, and is doing her dissertation on best practices in Alternative Grad…
14 - Undoing the Grade: An Interview with Jesse Stommel
On this episode, Bosley and Sharona speak with Dr. Jesse Stommel about his new book Undoing the Grade and about all the conversations about grades that we should be having. We touch on everything fro…