{"id":87023,"date":"2023-05-15T12:01:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T16:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=87023"},"modified":"2023-05-15T12:01:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T16:01:16","slug":"is-it-time-to-rethink-the-traditional-grading-system-young-talbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/05\/15\/is-it-time-to-rethink-the-traditional-grading-system-young-talbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Time to Rethink the Traditional Grading System? [Young &#038; Talbert]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2023-05-09-is-it-time-to-rethink-the-traditional-grading-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Is It Time to Rethink the Traditional Grading System?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from edsurge.com by Jeffrey R. Young and Robert Talbert<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again. But he wasn\u2019t quite sure what to replace them with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As Talbert soon discovered, there\u2019s a whole world of so-called alternative grading systems. So many, in fact, that he ended up co-writing an entire book about them with a colleague at his university, David Clark. The book, which is due out this summer, is called \u201c<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Grading-Growth-Alternative-Practices-Engagement\/dp\/1642673811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Grading for Growth: A Guide to Alternative Grading Practices that Promote Authentic Learning and Student Engagement in Higher Education<\/a>.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">EdSurge connected with Talbert to hear what he uses in his classes now, and why he argues that reforming how grading works is key to increasing student engagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is It Time to Rethink the Traditional Grading System? &#8212; from edsurge.com by Jeffrey R. Young and Robert Talbert Excerpt: After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again. But he wasn\u2019t quite sure what to replace them with. As Talbert soon discovered, there\u2019s a whole world of so-called alternative grading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,68,86,71,3,119,102,7,423,406,173,217,66,50,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-assessment","category-change","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-instructional-design","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-love-of-learning","category-motivation","category-pedagogy","category-research","category-student-related","category-teaching-learning","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87025,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87023\/revisions\/87025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}