Social Justice Assessment Resources

Equitable Assessment Resources

• Blinne, Kristen C. (Editor). Grading Justice: Teacher-Activist Approaches to Assessment (Critical Communication Pedagogy). Lexington Books, 2021
• Ciabocchi, Elizabeth and Mathes, Jennifer, Compassionate, Equitable, and Inclusive Assessment of Online Learning. Liberal Education Blog
• Fair Assessment Practices Checklist – Queens University, Canada
• Inoue, Asao B – Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies:  Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future (access to full text PDF by chapter)
• Kadakia, Pamela Chui and Bradshaw, Allan A. Equitable Exams During COVID-19.
• Keller, Lisa – Making Educational Assessments More Equitable – University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Milner, H. Richard. Confronting Inequity/Assessment for Equity
• National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA):
  • NILOA Equity in Assessment
    • Equity and Assessment:  Moving Towards Culturally Responsive Assessment
      • This paper argues that for assessment to meet the goal of improving student learning and authentically document what students know and can do, a culturally responsive approach to assessment is needed. 
    • A New Decade for Assessment:  Embedding Equity into Assessment Praxis
    • Equity Case Study – St Edward’s U:  Rethinking General Education to Support Social Justice
    • Equity Case Study – Capital U:  Campus Climate Assessment through Critical Race Theory
    • Equity Case Study – Cornell U:  Ripple Effect Mapping
    • Equity Case Study – Portland State U:  General Education and Equitable Assessment
    • Equity Case Study – Capella U:  Equity and Transparency

• Onufer, Lindsay – Teaching at PITT:  Making Your Assessments More Equitable
• Sousanis, Nick – Unflattening 2015 visual thinking example (pdf); About Unflattening (article and video)
• St Amour, Madeline – A Push for Equitable Assessment – Inside Higher Ed, June 2020
• This Ain’t Another Statement! This is a Demand for Black Linguistic Justice! – June 2020 Conference on College Composition & Communication Special Committee Statement on Anti-Black Racism and Black Linguistic Justice, Or, Why We Can’t Breathe!

Labor-Based Grading Resources

• Blaauw-Hara, Mark – Labor-Based Grading Excerpt – 90 second YouTube Video
• Buck, David – What Is a Labor-Based Grading Contract?
• Gardner, Traci – Explaining Labor-Based Grading to Student Writers
• Inoue, Asao B – Labor Based Grading Contracts:  Building Equity and Inclusion in the Writing Classroom (access to full text PDF by chapter)
• Navickas, Kate – Grading Contracts 101 (pdf)
• Rajabzadeh, Shokoofeh – Labor Contract – detailed course example
• Warner, John – If I Knew Then What I Know Now:  Grading Contract Advice Inside Higher Ed, January 2017

Ungrading Resources

• Blum, Susan – Pedagogies of Care:  Ungrading – Tea for Teaching Podcast
• Buck, Heather Mitchell – Adventures in Ungrading
• Elbow, Peter – Ranking, Evaluating, Liking:  Sorting Out Three Forms of Judgment
• Ferguson, Hadley J – Journey Into Ungrading – on jstor
• Flaherty, Colleen – When Grading Less Is More – Inside Higher Ed, April 2, 2019
• Gallant, Tricia Bertram – Ungrading for Integrity – ICAI – International Center for Academic Integrity
• Gibbs, Laura – Ungrading for More/Better Feedback
• Johnson, Philip – Ungrading:  Rethinking Assessment in the Classroom Hunter College Academic Center for Excellence in Research and Teaching
• Kohn, Alfie – The Case Against Grades
• Kohn, Alfie – The Trouble with Rubrics – Alfie Kohn
• Lauricella, Sharon – Ungrading:  Why (plus how via my syllabus) – Dr Academic Batgirl
• Sorensen-Unruh, Clarissa – Ungrading – What Is It and Why Should We Use It?
• Stommel, Jesse – How to Ungrade
• Stommel, Jesse – Ungrading – an FAQ
• Stommel, Jesse – Why I Don’t Grade
• Supiano, Beckie – Grades Can Hinder Learning. What Should Professors Use Instead? – The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 19. 2019