{"id":244,"date":"2021-05-14T12:58:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T12:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunyinnovativeassessments.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2021-05-14T16:48:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:48:45","slug":"contract-grading-in-an-english-or-professional-writing-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/innovativeassessments\/multiple_pathways\/contract-grading-in-an-english-or-professional-writing-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract Grading in an English or Professional Writing Course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Instructor: Kati Ahern &#8211; Director of Writing Programs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Course\/Department: English<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Institution: SUNY Cortland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subject: Professional Writing or Composition courses<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Labor-Based (or \u201cwork-based\u201d) Contract Grading is a system of grading based off the research of Asao Inoue (2015; 2018). It differs from traditional grading in that you do not receive a grade&nbsp; based on the subjective quality of your work, but instead based on the labor (or work) you&nbsp; complete within the course. In other words, you will receive feedback from me, comments,&nbsp; suggestions for revision, encouragement, and support, but you will not receive an \u201cA, B, C, D, or&nbsp; E\u201d based on how \u201cwell\u201d you completed the project.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Use Contract Grading for all projects, asking students to submit an assignment with core specs, criteria, or requirements then with option of up to 3 + parts, moving scores from a B to B+, A-, or A. Also allowing for both open revision to meet criteria and acceptance of projects missing criteria scaling down to B-, C+, C, C-, D. (My examples included are a syllabus and FAQ sheet.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recommended Number of Students<\/strong>: Has been used with ~20-25 students<br><strong>Time Requirements (Approximate)<\/strong>: Can be completed in a semester time period<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sunyinnovativeassessments.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Contract-Grading-Explained-Revised-s21-Kati-Fargo-Ahern.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Contract-Grading-Explained-Revised-s21-Kati-Fargo-Ahern<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructor: Kati Ahern &#8211; Director of Writing Programs Course\/Department: English Institution: SUNY Cortland Subject: Professional Writing or Composition courses Description Labor-Based (or \u201cwork-based\u201d) Contract Grading is a system of grading based off the research of Asao Inoue (2015; 2018). It differs from traditional grading in that you do not receive &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multiple_pathways","category-social_justice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jeffrey Jackson","author_link":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/innovativeassessments\/author\/jeffrey-jacksoncortland-edu\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/innovativeassessments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/innovativeassessments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/innovativeassessments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/innovativeassessments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/innovativeassessments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/innovativeassessments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/innovativeassessments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/innovativeassessments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/innovativeassessments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/innovativeassessments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}