Check out what I read this year app.thestorygraph.com/wrap-up/2025...

The Indiana General Assembly just passed HB 1515 and at the last minute slipped in a provision that all allied health professional schools must be on an A-F or similar merit system

93% of medical schools have left the A-F system because it does not improve learning

This is really really bad

The deadline for submitting an abstract to this year’s Grading Conference is rapidly approaching! Submissions are due Feb 28!!

www.centerforgradingreform.org/grading-conf...

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪

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drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

If you want to explore #ungrading & alternative #assessment, join our virtual book club on @josheyler.bsky.social's new book Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do About It. Feb.-May 2025. Meetings via Zoom. Free to all! www.tinyurl.com/FailingOurFuture
#ungrading #grades

Finally deactivated my Twitter

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT! The keynote speakers for this year's Grading Conference have been announced! We are so excited to have Dr. Susan D. Blum, Dr. Laila McCloud, and Prof. Jeffrey Schinske speak to our incredible community. Register now! thegradingconference.com

Getting Started w/Alternative Grading:

--@empittsdonahoe.bsky.social's newsletter emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com

--Grading for Growth by @dccmath.bsky.social & @roberttalbert.bsky.social

--Ungrading, edited by @susandblum.bsky.social

--@drew-lewis.com's essays on Standards-Based Grading

Registration is open for the Grading Conference! June 13-15 2024, online. Low cost and pay-what-you can options are available.

If you're interested in learning more about alternative grading or sharing your work, check it out!

thegradingconference.com/registration...

Tomorrow I am giving a workshop on Standards Based Grading in STEM. I put together this little one page handout with the key points and some resources.

Back on the blog this week to talk about changes to my fall course...and a new tool to help keep students (and myself) on track. open.substack.com/pub/emilypit...

Now available open-access from the University of Central Florida: "ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today."

Kevin Yee and colleagues have pulled together over 60 different ways to use generative AI in a college course!

stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Today on The Grading Podcast we talk to Jesse Stommel @jessifer.bsky.social about his new book Undoing the Grade. Everything from 1000 point grading systems, LMS usage, why we grade, and so much more! Listen wherever you get your podcasts or at thegradingpod.com/episodes/14-...

New at Grading For Growth: Making alternative grading work on a short time scale, when your academic term is less than 15 weeks long. Inspired by a question about alt-grading on the quarter system.

gradingforgrowth.com/p/grading-fo...

Good morning from Mona and Harry