The Five Question Summary revisited
Traditional student evaluations of teaching miss the mark in a number of key ways. Here is a simple, useful tool that might serve as a replacement.
Teaching
Prioritizing participation
How might we incentivize energetically focused participation without assessing or grading it?
Does alternative grading make cheating more likely?
A helpful meta-analysis of research on academic motivation gives clarity on the relationship between grading setups and academic dishonesty.
A three-headed monster
There's a three-headed monster at the heart of higher education that is eating away at the purpose of the university.
Grading for growth in an engineering math class: Part 1
Originally posted at Grading For Growth, it's part 1 of a two-part postmortem on my most recent use of specifications grading.