This spring, our book club is reading Grading for Growth: A Guide to Alternative Grading Practices that Promote Authentic Learning and Student Engagement in Higher Education by Professors David Clark and Robert Talbert. We will discuss strategies for designing equitable and inclusive assessment practices that empower lasting learning.
Part 1: What Is Alternative Grading?
To open up the discussion, Wentworth physics professor Jeremy Wachter will share his experiences employing a variety of alternative grading strategies in the physics classroom. He will discuss his scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) research and publication about the impacts of his alternative grading interventions. As a Wentworth faculty ambassador of inclusive excellence, he will explain how he uses alternative grading as an inclusive instructional practice.