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MARCH 12, 2025

Think about it: would you rather piece together an argument from scratch, hoping it works, or have a structured paper that lays out key points, sources, and ideas in a way that you can build on? They outline, they revise, they look at examples of strong arguments. But thats what education islearning from experts.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MAY 19, 2023

Earlier this year , I wrote that 2022 seemed to be the year that ungrading really took hold in higher education, and that we can expect its prevalence and influence to increase through 2023. I've edited it slightly for reposting, and there are some updated thoughts at the end for you to check out.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 15, 2022

An argument for traditional grading goes like this: Sure, a single assessment might have a grade on it that doesn't accurately reflect student understanding. It leads to "grade inflation" It violates some kind of academic machismo code that views student assessment like competition in an arena.

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