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Tag: Grading

Podcast: Decentering grammar and grading in academic writing instruction

In this podcast episode we talk to Sophia Brauner about academic writing as a means of communication of ideas and the effects that decentering language correctness and grading can have in the teaching of writing.

20. März 2023 | Tags: Podcasts, Teaching writing, Grading

Killing curiosity: why exams harm scholarship and education

Teaching is about establishing and sustaining connection between curious minds to create and to share ideas and knowledge. Exams are about generating distance and social barriers to safeguard privilege. They are harmful to students and harmful to scholarship.

21. April 2020 | Tags: Essays, Analysis, Institutional education, Testing, Grading, Intrinsic motivation, Power, Gate-keeping, Privilege, Mastery