Labor Based Grading Impressions by Katherine Burns https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks Just Grading? en-us 2022-04-14 18:16:37 UTC 2022-04-19 21:36:08 UTC hello@padlet.com it's more work for the instructor. https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149289687 2022-04-19 21:19:00 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149289687 Labor based grading https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149289832 Excited about the premise. Concerned about the execution. Labor (time) is the one thing some of our most vulnerable students have in limited supply.]]> 2022-04-19 21:19:10 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149289832 Have to do a lot of accounting and spreadsheeting siskiyou97 https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149289960 2022-04-19 21:19:17 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149289960 Labor-based grading https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149290083 Conceptually, perfect. Still struggling with some aspects, particularly the relation of labor to time. Trying to instantiate "competencies" in an AWAE frame.]]> 2022-04-19 21:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149290083 I love the idea, but have yet to find a way to truly explain it to students that isn't confusing for some students (and myself?). Also--I'm pretty sure what I'm doing is not based on their labor in terms of time and effort, but rather "task completion based." https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149290168 2022-04-19 21:19:31 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149290168 https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149290186 labor sounds so laborious]]> 2022-04-19 21:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149290186 https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149290228 inadvertently sets up a new hierarchy of value based in the available TIME students have to give assignments. ]]> 2022-04-19 21:19:34 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149290228 Students won't get what they need https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149290416 Students won't get what they need for the next course or their other academic and professional writing situations]]> 2022-04-19 21:19:48 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149290416 Hmmm https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149290734 I'm seeing a pattern . . .]]> 2022-04-19 21:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149290734 a focus on the students' work, studies, practices... https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149291313 2022-04-19 21:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149291313 transformative--changes everything--content, course design, student interactions, and self... https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149291414 2022-04-19 21:20:39 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149291414 Demotivates some students siskiyou97 https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149291521 2022-04-19 21:20:45 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149291521 empowering for students. shares control. https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149291908 2022-04-19 21:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149291908 https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149292118 completion of exercise seems more pertinent than labor based grading]]> 2022-04-19 21:21:21 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149292118 I like thinking about it as embodied practice--I like the way thinking about labor-based opens the options for thinking about the bodies/hands/minds writing and thinking https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149292164 2022-04-19 21:21:24 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149292164 Beautiful in theory, complicated in practice siskiyou97 https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149292244 2022-04-19 21:21:29 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149292244 Labor based grading is essential if we're building toward equity https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149293395 2022-04-19 21:21:57 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149293395 Love it. Seems to turn grading into conversations. Allows me to say "Oh, I love it that you wrote ...". I like labor based better than "contract." Less businessy. https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149295913 2022-04-19 21:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149295913 https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149295915 It's still a grade. I want to move beyond grades. #stillstuckinasystem]]> 2022-04-19 21:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149295915 In the Writing Center, students in Katherine's classes tell us that they're bundling for an A. The initial conversations with them are upbeat, positive, productive. There's a different energy as they come to us...? https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149296558 2022-04-19 21:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149296558 As I have implemented it--I noticed that my grade distribution has shifted. Lots of "As" and lots of "Cs"--not much inbetween. https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149297648 2022-04-19 21:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149297648 https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149299062 Is it still grading? What seems most relevant to encourage people to participate in writing as a means of discovery?]]> 2022-04-19 21:23:33 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149299062 Freeing in multiple ways. But there's the need to remain flexible for neurodivergent writers and others who may have a varied interpretation of labor. https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149301299 2022-04-19 21:24:11 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149301299 One of my favorite people ever, who studies in the Writing Center, got to have a labor-based 101 experience: and in his case, he got to have a first, in-depth view of his own writing that was very real, open, multilingual-honoring. In other words, I'm seeing the results of this work in the people I get to meet each day. https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149302925 2022-04-19 21:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/katherineburnsatwork/Bookmarks/wish/2149302925