Can someone, in a single tweet, please define what #ungrading is? Even better if you can state how it’s different to assessment for learning.
Huge thanks to everyone who replied here. A helpful and diverse set of responses. The big takeaway for me is that ungrading is as much about the 'why' (the rationale for ungrading) as the 'what' (the specific practices).
There's a lot of overlap in the 'what' between ungrading and assessment for learning - but it's heartening to see a new enthusiasm and justification for these practices
https://twitter.com/CarlessDavid/status/1566398690889453568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1566398690889453568%7Ctwgr%5Eab1f19ea04a3a8e33d6a1927df2042d1b0b3a1dd%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FCarlessDavid2Fstatus2F1566398690889453568widget%3DTweet
As someone committed to standards-based assessment (which is radically different to norm-referenced, marking on a curve) I'm not sure where I sit on the idea of getting rid of grades entirely. I do think pass/fail would be better than what we currently do
https://twitter.com/JuusoNieminen/status/1566392496049242112
The "raising an eyebrow" to grades is something we definitely need to do. Too much harm has been done by grades, and it needn't be this way
https://twitter.com/sarah_hack/status/1566394860348792832
When I started my current job, my boss David Boud put me onto the work of @alfiekohn and suggested "Punished by Rewards" which carries very much the same vibe as ungrading (this link is to a conversation but there's also a book) alfiekohn.org/article/punish…
Grading comes out of the well-meaning intention to communicate what students are capable of. But in everyday practice, the scores we produce are often the result of adding up things that can't be added up. This makes grades hard to defend
https://twitter.com/marielynn502/status/1566443711206248449
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