Description
Book SynopsisIn Grading Justice: Teacher-Activist Approaches to Assessment, new and seasoned teachers explore socially-just approaches of assessment, including practices aimed at resisting and undoing grading and assessment altogether, to create more democratic grading policies and practices, foregrounding the transformative potential of communication within college courses. The contributions in this collection invite readers to consider not only how educators might assess social justice work in and beyond the classroom, but also to imagine what a social justice approach to grading and assessment would mean for intervening into potentially unjust modes of teaching and learning by creating more just practices and policies. Scholars of pedagogy, Social Activism, and communications will find this book particularly interesting.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Grieving (Un)Grading (In)Justices
Kristen C. Blinne
1- Rhetoric of Grades: Evaluating Student Work and Its Consequences
David Deifell
2- Mobilizing a Critical Universal Design for Learning Framework for Justice Minded Course Design and Assessment
Mark Congdon Jr. and Allison D. Brenneise
3- Honoring Viviencias: A Borderlands Approach to Higher Education Pedagogy Justice
Leandra H. Hernandez and Sarah De Los Santos Upton
4- Walking the Tightrope: Navigating the Tensions of Teaching and Grading Communication Content Inside and Outside the Discipline
Juliane Mora
5- Student-Activist Mentor Letters as a Form of Social Movement-Building in Communication Activism Pedagogy
David L. Palmer
6- Love Letters Gone Wrong: Complicating the Romantic Ideal of Democratic Processes in the College Classroom
Londie T. Martin and Kristen A. McIntyre
7- Are We Just Grading or Grading Justly?: Adventures with Non-Traditional
Assessment
Kristen C. Blinne
8- “Ungrading” Communication: Awareness Pedagogy as Activist Assessment
Kristen C. Blinne
9- Resisting the Detrimental Effects of Grade Inflation on University Faculty and Students through Critical Communication Pedagogy
David H. Kahl Jr.
10- Rate My Performance, or Just Sing Along: A Critical Look at Student Evaluations of Teaching
Summer Cunningham
11- The Seven Lesson Faculty Member: Outlining Assessment’s Harm to Faculty
C. Kyle Rudick
About the Contributors
