November 24, 2018November 25, 2018Grading Grading is not Teaching Grading is grading. Teaching is helping the students improve their performance or increase their knowledge or change their thinking. Grading doesn’t do any […]
October 5, 2018November 25, 2018Assignments, Grading Less Grading, Better Student Performance I’m grading less in two ways: number of assignments and number of evaluative categories. Remember, this is the basic public speaking class. […]
September 10, 2018October 1, 2018Grading The liberating grading system Yes. Liberating. For me and my students. Here are two of the most important elements of my new system: how they earn […]
September 6, 2018October 1, 2018Grading Teach, don’t grade After teaching the basic public speaking course at colleges for over 30 years, and being frustrated with the level of speeches, level […]