Here are some books and articles on critical pedagogy, especially on alternative methods of grading, including contract grading, sometimes classified under the general rubric of “ungrading.”
- Blum, Susan. Ungrading Quick-start Sources
Books and Articles:
- Blum, Susan, ed. Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead). Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2020.
- Bourdieu, Pierre, and Jean-Claude Passeron. The Inheritors: French Students and their Relation to Culture. Trans Richard Nice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
- Elbow, Peter. “Ranking, Evaluating, Liking: Sorting Out Three Forms of Judgment”. College English 12 (1994).
- Elbow, Peter. “Do we need a single standard of value for institutional assessment? An essay response to Asao Inoue’s ‘community-based assessment pedagogy'”. Assessing Writing 11.2 (2006): 81-99.
- Faye, Sarah, and Dan Melzer. “Assessment is the Engine of Learning: An Interview with Asao Inoue”. Writing on the Edge
- Freire, Paolo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Trans Myra Bergman Ramos. New York: Continuum, 2000.
- Illich, Ivan. Deschooling Society. New York: Harper and Row, 1971.
- Inoue, Asao. “Community-Based Assessment Pedagogy”. Assessing Writing 9.3 (2004): 208-238.
- Inoue, Asao. “A Grade-Less Writing Course That Focuses on Labor and Assessing”. First-year Composition: From Theory to Practice. Ed. Deborah Coxwell-Teague and Ronald F. Lunsford. West Lafayette, Indiana: Parlor, 2014.
- Inoue, Asao. Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2019.
- Mandel, Barrett John. “Teaching Without Judging”. College English 34.5 (February 1973): 623-633.
- Schinske, Jeffrey, and Kimberly Tanner. “Teaching and Learning Teaching More by Grading Less (or Differently)”. CBE—Life Sciences Education 13 (Summer 2014): 159–166.
Online resources:
- Clark, David. “Standards and Contracts and Competencies, oh my!” gradingforgrowth.com. August 23, 2021.
- Gruner, Elizabeth. “I no longer grade my students’ work – and I wish I had stopped sooner”. The Conversation. March 29, 2022.
- Kohn, Alfie. “The Case Against Grades”. https://www.alfiekohn.org/. November, 2011.
- Moosvi, Firas, Celeste Leander, and Jaclyn Stewart. “Ungrading: a radical old idea, picking up steam”. Edubytes. CTLT, UBC. March 31, 2022.
- Moosvi, Firas, et al. “How to Get Students to Stop Thinking about Grades, and Focus on Learning Instead”. December 15, 2021.
- Stommel, Jesse. “How to Ungrade”. jessestommel.com. March 11, 2018.
- Stommel, Jesse. “Ungrading: An Introduction”. jessestommel.com. June 11, 2021.
- Stommel, Jesse. “How to Ungrade” (video presentation). youtube.com. June 11, 2021.
