Tag: assessment

  • Chapter 12: What could possibly go wrong?

    Review This chapter sees co-authors Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis of The New College Classroom offering tangible, adaptable approaches for classrooms of any level. The discussion is initially grounded in conversations that Davidson and Katopodis had held with other educators who seemed to encounter moments of “failure” that evidently threw progressive classroom teaching methods […]

  • Review of Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis’ Chapter 11 “Grades–Ugh!” from The New College Classroom

    Pulling out a red pen, instructors take on the often-grueling task of designing assessment practices and grading their students. In Chapter 11, “Grades–Ugh,” Cathy Davidson and Christina Katopodis continue their engagement with participatory learning by challenging assumptions about the history of grading and share assessment approaches that embrace an ungrading pedagogy. The authors of The […]