Innovative Grading and Assessment Community of Practice - Duke Center for Teaching and Learning

Program Description

The Innovative Grading and Assessment Community of Practice (CoP) aims to bring together instructors who have used or are currently using innovative grading and assessment approaches to achieve two goals:

Work with and learn from colleagues also using innovative grading and assessment approaches in their classes
Share your knowledge with the broader Duke community, becoming champions for innovative grading and assessment at Duke

Innovative Grading and Assessments is a broad term that includes many different approaches. Generally, it includes any technique that rethinks how grades are used in a class and focuses more on learning as an outcome. Some techniques de-emphasize grades, while others involve students more explicitly in the process of determining a grade.

Some non-exhaustive examples of these approaches include:

Changes to individual aspects of a class
- Redesigns of assignments (e.g., allowing flexibility in types of submissions)
- Alternative feedback methods (e.g., peer feedback, resubmission)
- Creative approaches to attendance (e.g., flexibility, incentivizing)
Changes to a course grading system
- Mastery-based Grading
- Standards-based Grading
- Specifications Grading
- Contract Grading
- Gamification