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The Grading Conference is a place where faculty join together to learn about grading practices that best support student learning, promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom, and enhance student and faculty classroom experiences.
A thing to note about AI use in writing: AI's will tend to suggest edits in ESWE (Edited Standard Written English). Need to teach students that this is happening to allow them agency to make an informed choice about using the suggested edits.
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June 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A thing to note about AI use in writing: AI's will tend to suggest edits in ESWE (Edited Standard Written English). Need to teach students that this is happening to allow them agency to make an informed choice about using the suggested edits.
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At a talk: Joy Against the Machine: Integrating Self-Assessment to Create "AI Resistant" Writing
Strategy to address AI risk factors: Make the problem into the solution. Written self-assessments and other projects allow students to shape content and assess their own learning.
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Strategy to address AI risk factors: Make the problem into the solution. Written self-assessments and other projects allow students to shape content and assess their own learning.
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June 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
At a talk: Joy Against the Machine: Integrating Self-Assessment to Create "AI Resistant" Writing
Strategy to address AI risk factors: Make the problem into the solution. Written self-assessments and other projects allow students to shape content and assess their own learning.
#thegradingconference
Strategy to address AI risk factors: Make the problem into the solution. Written self-assessments and other projects allow students to shape content and assess their own learning.
#thegradingconference
More from Jeff: Let’s define deep learning to be learning that involves anintense, distraction-free focus on growing your abilities by pushing beyond the limits of your current capacity. 1/2
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June 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
More from Jeff: Let’s define deep learning to be learning that involves anintense, distraction-free focus on growing your abilities by pushing beyond the limits of your current capacity. 1/2
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This conference is evidence that learning how to implement alt grading is a long, slow process of unlearning & reframing how to see students & learning. It's also evidence that 100s of educators & students across disciplines who are deeply committed to learning have been let down by grades.
Several talk are giving results and research about specific implementations of alt grading in STEM classes. It's great to see people who came to the grading conference in previous years come back with the results of what they tried. Love this community!
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June 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This conference is evidence that learning how to implement alt grading is a long, slow process of unlearning & reframing how to see students & learning. It's also evidence that 100s of educators & students across disciplines who are deeply committed to learning have been let down by grades.
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Hi y'all. I wrote yet another thing. This one summarizes and provides expanded sections for the CBE:LSE article I published last year "The ungrading learning theory we have is not the ungrading learning theory we need."
A summary: The ungrading learning theory we have is not the ungrading learning theory we need
Well this summary is only about a year late. The struggle is real, y'all. ;o) This blog is summarizing this article: Sorensen-Unruh, C. (2024). The ungrading learning theory we have is not the ungrading learning theory we need. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 23(3), es6: 1-12. This article is open access so go download it asap for more information about everything covered here.
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June 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Today's keynote by Jeff Anderson: Let’s define learning as a growth process that happens inside your body & leads to changes in your knowledge, beliefs, behaviors, or attitudes. These transformations occur based on your experiences & increase your potential for improved performance & future learning
June 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Today's keynote by Jeff Anderson: Let’s define learning as a growth process that happens inside your body & leads to changes in your knowledge, beliefs, behaviors, or attitudes. These transformations occur based on your experiences & increase your potential for improved performance & future learning
Several talk are giving results and research about specific implementations of alt grading in STEM classes. It's great to see people who came to the grading conference in previous years come back with the results of what they tried. Love this community!
#thegradingconference
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June 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Several talk are giving results and research about specific implementations of alt grading in STEM classes. It's great to see people who came to the grading conference in previous years come back with the results of what they tried. Love this community!
#thegradingconference
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Another great day at #TheGradingConference! Currently at a panel of students, learning what alt-grading looks like from their end. #ungrading
June 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Another great day at #TheGradingConference! Currently at a panel of students, learning what alt-grading looks like from their end. #ungrading
Heard around the "watercooler" at the grading conference:
Alt Grading is a gateway drug to systemic change in education.
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Alt Grading is a gateway drug to systemic change in education.
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June 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Heard around the "watercooler" at the grading conference:
Alt Grading is a gateway drug to systemic change in education.
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Alt Grading is a gateway drug to systemic change in education.
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Talking about writing in Science
Q: Is there a problem?
A: Writing in lower-division science courses is underemphasized. Students are underprepared for upper-division courses to
write reports and correspondence
publish in peer-reviewed journals.
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Q: Is there a problem?
A: Writing in lower-division science courses is underemphasized. Students are underprepared for upper-division courses to
write reports and correspondence
publish in peer-reviewed journals.
#TheGradingConference
June 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Talking about writing in Science
Q: Is there a problem?
A: Writing in lower-division science courses is underemphasized. Students are underprepared for upper-division courses to
write reports and correspondence
publish in peer-reviewed journals.
#TheGradingConference
Q: Is there a problem?
A: Writing in lower-division science courses is underemphasized. Students are underprepared for upper-division courses to
write reports and correspondence
publish in peer-reviewed journals.
#TheGradingConference
How does alt grading become sustainable? Intentionally teaching the next generation of instructors about grading philosophies and pedagogy. Two different sessions on training GTAs at this year's conference!!
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June 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
How does alt grading become sustainable? Intentionally teaching the next generation of instructors about grading philosophies and pedagogy. Two different sessions on training GTAs at this year's conference!!
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Lot's of conversation about grading writing this year, as well as critical pedagogy around both writing and STEM disciplines. It's amazing to see the cross-pollination of disciplines here!!
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June 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Lot's of conversation about grading writing this year, as well as critical pedagogy around both writing and STEM disciplines. It's amazing to see the cross-pollination of disciplines here!!
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June 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Did I write a thing in anticipation of #TheGradingConference and specifically for my fellow ungraders who are part of the SCIENCE Collaborative who are attending? Yes, yes I did.
Y’all are gonna let me know your thoughts below, right? RIGHT?!? 😈🫶🏼
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Y’all are gonna let me know your thoughts below, right? RIGHT?!? 😈🫶🏼
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Equity-Minded Pedagogy vs. Emancipatory Pedagogy
There are many current descriptors that are floating around SOTL, DBER, and STEM educational research spaces, each trying to accurately capture some difference in pedagogies: culturally related/res…
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June 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Did I write a thing in anticipation of #TheGradingConference and specifically for my fellow ungraders who are part of the SCIENCE Collaborative who are attending? Yes, yes I did.
Y’all are gonna let me know your thoughts below, right? RIGHT?!? 😈🫶🏼
clarissasorensenunruh.com/2025/06/10/e...
Y’all are gonna let me know your thoughts below, right? RIGHT?!? 😈🫶🏼
clarissasorensenunruh.com/2025/06/10/e...
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Session "Special topics: Neurodiversity" at #TheGradingConference:
@sarahesilverman.bsky.social making the point that #AltGrading *can* provide a "tolerance for error" that is often needed when neurodivergent students are trying to communicate with neurotypical instructors or vice versa.
@sarahesilverman.bsky.social making the point that #AltGrading *can* provide a "tolerance for error" that is often needed when neurodivergent students are trying to communicate with neurotypical instructors or vice versa.
June 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Session "Special topics: Neurodiversity" at #TheGradingConference:
@sarahesilverman.bsky.social making the point that #AltGrading *can* provide a "tolerance for error" that is often needed when neurodivergent students are trying to communicate with neurotypical instructors or vice versa.
@sarahesilverman.bsky.social making the point that #AltGrading *can* provide a "tolerance for error" that is often needed when neurodivergent students are trying to communicate with neurotypical instructors or vice versa.
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#TheGradingConference is starting its 6th online incarnation and there are almost 1000 people registered! Their mission is ambitious : systemic change at all levels of education!
June 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
#TheGradingConference is starting its 6th online incarnation and there are almost 1000 people registered! Their mission is ambitious : systemic change at all levels of education!
What are your results?
In four years there have only been 2 students who I haven't been able to get across the finish line.
(Out of over 550 students, Gen Chem)
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In four years there have only been 2 students who I haven't been able to get across the finish line.
(Out of over 550 students, Gen Chem)
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June 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
What are your results?
In four years there have only been 2 students who I haven't been able to get across the finish line.
(Out of over 550 students, Gen Chem)
#TheGradingConference
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In four years there have only been 2 students who I haven't been able to get across the finish line.
(Out of over 550 students, Gen Chem)
#TheGradingConference
www.thegradingconference.com
Dr. Tanner: Things I learned along the way...
If you just ask for corrections, it doesn't replicate - they have to sit a new exam.
If you put the exams online, it doesn't replicate.
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If you just ask for corrections, it doesn't replicate - they have to sit a new exam.
If you put the exams online, it doesn't replicate.
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June 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Dr. Tanner: Things I learned along the way...
If you just ask for corrections, it doesn't replicate - they have to sit a new exam.
If you put the exams online, it doesn't replicate.
#TheGradingConference
www.thegradingconference.com
If you just ask for corrections, it doesn't replicate - they have to sit a new exam.
If you put the exams online, it doesn't replicate.
#TheGradingConference
www.thegradingconference.com
Dr. Tanner: What do I think made it work?
Retakes were highly diagnostic - I could pinpoint almost immediately which concepts weren't there yet.
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Retakes were highly diagnostic - I could pinpoint almost immediately which concepts weren't there yet.
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June 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Dr. Tanner: What do I think made it work?
Retakes were highly diagnostic - I could pinpoint almost immediately which concepts weren't there yet.
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Retakes were highly diagnostic - I could pinpoint almost immediately which concepts weren't there yet.
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"Dr. Tanner has made me see that the term "scientist" encompasses so much more - it also describes every person who walks through the door of [our classroom]."
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June 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"Dr. Tanner has made me see that the term "scientist" encompasses so much more - it also describes every person who walks through the door of [our classroom]."
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Student reactions: "I did not think that I would enjoy learning about Chemistry but this class proved me wrong."
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June 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Student reactions: "I did not think that I would enjoy learning about Chemistry but this class proved me wrong."
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Student reactions: "I felt I actually learning to understand instead of memorize".
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June 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Student reactions: "I felt I actually learning to understand instead of memorize".
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"In a single semester, I had 772 retakes, which equates to 38,600 minutes of bonus chemistry problems!"
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June 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"In a single semester, I had 772 retakes, which equates to 38,600 minutes of bonus chemistry problems!"
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"What did I do? Unlimited retakes for the 4 in-class cumulative multiple choice exams"
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June 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"What did I do? Unlimited retakes for the 4 in-class cumulative multiple choice exams"
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"Not all my students share my deep love of Chemistry (at the beginning!)"
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June 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"Not all my students share my deep love of Chemistry (at the beginning!)"
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