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by professoretc 1701 days ago
The authors of Grading for Equity spoke at my school and the experience was an interesting one: the Humanities faculty constantly tried to move the conversation toward the topics traditionally associated with "equity": systemic racism, how the California college system was designed to exclude everyone but white males, etc. But the authors basically ignored those attempts and gave what (I though) was some really good, practical advice for improving grading practices. A few of their suggestions (preferring partial credit to pass/fail, in particular) came across to me as being motivated more to increase scores than to make them more accurate, but by and large the whole talk was very good.