Ungrading Light: 4 Simple Ways to Ease the Spotlight Off Points (Chronicle Article)

This article offers strategies for shifting the focus from earning points to learning with purpose. These types of strategies, where grades are de-emphasized or not used at all in evaluation, can improve creativity and motivation while reducing anxiety.

Meaningful Grading: A Guide for Faculty in the Arts

This book "enables faculty to create and implement effective assessment methodologies—research based and field tested—in traditional and online classrooms. In doing so, the book reveals how the daunting challenges of grading in the arts can be turned into opportunities for deeper student learning, increased student engagement, and an enlivened pedagogy."

Grading for Growth: Reconsidering Points, Purpose, and Proficiency

This article identifies challenges with traditional grading practices and outlines alternative grading methods with a focus on competency-based grading. Author Lisa Pitzer, a certified nurse educator and academic clinical nurse educator, poses and answers a powerful question: "As educators in higher education, we recognize that learning isn’t always linear; so why do our grading practices assume it is?"

Slide Deck: Feedback that Fuels Learning - Innovative Approaches to Assessment

These materials integrate several high-impact assessment approaches, including TILT, alternative grading methods, rubrics, and critique practices.

Handout for Feedback that Fuels Learning

This handout accompanies the slide deck above