Contract Grading Reading and Resources

So you want to know more about contract grading! That's awesome, and you're awesome. Here are some places to get started on the discussion of why grades are bad and what we can do about it. Pick an interesting title and dive in!

Remember: Perfect is the enemy of good. If you're so paralyzed by not Getting Everything Right that you don't do anything? That's bad! Just try something.

Questions? Comments? Links you want to add? I'm hardly an expert, but I'll do my best! You can get in touch with me via email at coxw@rowan.edu, or on Twitter at @ProfWCox.

• Ungrading: an FAQ
• Teaching More by Grading Less (or Differently)
• Resources for Alternatives to Traditional Grading Models
• What If We Didn't Grade? A Bibliography
• Grading Contracts 101
• I Have Seen the Glories of the Grading Contract
• A Grade-less Writing Course that Focuses on Labor and Assessing
• How I Contract Grade
• Grades are Dehumanizing; Ungrading is No Simple Solution
• I Stopped Grading. You Can, Too.
• Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies
• A Grade-less Writing Course that Focuses on Labor and Assessing
• The Case Against Grades
• How an alternative grading system is improving student learning
• Grading Student Writing: Making It Simpler, Fairer, Clearer
• Contract Grading and Peer Review
• All Teachers Should Be Trained to Overcome Their Hidden Biases
• From Degrading to De-Grading
• Who’s Cheating Whom?
• Forget Grades and Turnitin. Start Trusting Students.
• If bell hooks Made an LMS: a Praxis of Liberation and Domain of One’s Own
• Messy & Chaotic Learning
• Remaking the grade
• Reflective Teaching Evolution