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Creating a Specifications Grading Course

The JMBE Live session I watched today was on “The Effects of Specifications Grading in a Cell Biology Course.” I watched it from the JMBE YouTube. Stanley Maloy, JMBE Editor, was the moderator. The authors are from Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) and included Shoshana Katzman, Jennifer Hurst-Kennedy, Elisabeth Javazon, Alessandra Barrera, Jennell Talley, Mary Diaz, […]
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Specifications and Tokens

Renee Link is a Professor of Teaching at UC Irvine and presented on “A Structure for Designing Specifications Grading Systems.” Link is a teaching faculty member and organizes chemistry labs involving 1000-1200 students, 6 graduate TAs, and 1 head TA or stockroom manager! Wow. Link introduced specifications grading and Linda Nilson’s book. They published how […]
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Ungrading through Specifications Grading?

I was reading the Ungrading book today and have been looking into Digital Pedagogy Lab resources. Tonight, I watched a presentation entitled “Specifications Grading: Ungrading :: Outcomes: Heart” by Dr. Jennifer McCrickerd from Drake University as part of the 2021 Lilly Conference online. McCrickerd has a Ph.D. in philosophy and specialized in ethics. McCrickerd described […]
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Grading Systems, Technology, and Equity

Todd Zakrajsek from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and ITLC presented on May 19th on “Game Changing Teaching Tips: Best Free Ed Tech Tools to Engage Students” as part of the Lilly Conference online 2021. Zakrajsek gave the audience a task and put them in break out rooms with access to a Padlet. […]
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Classroom Currency

Dr. Robert Chatt from Westfield State University in Massachusetts presented at the Lilly Conference last year an asynchronous session on an approach they are using to increase motivation in a finance course. I had the opportunity to watch this session this evening and enjoyed Chatt’s honesty and conversational tone as well as enthusiasm for the […]
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