You have to build trust with students around alternative grading, but they aren’t the only ones with whom we might need to build it.
In this throwback from 2011, I give six pieces of advice to academic job-seekers and some updated thoughts for 2022.
A podcast episode with my thoughts on "radical simplification", and two additional related thoughts.
I am worried not so much that we are losing students, funding, or our currency with the general public. My worry is that we're losing our nerve.
Why David Clark and I are dropping the term "mastery grading" in our upcoming book on that subject.