Introduction : grieving (un)grading (in)justices / Kristen C. Blinne -- Rhetoric of grades : evaluating student work and its consequences / David Deifell -- Mobilizing a critical universal design for learning framework for justice minded course design and assessment / Allison D. Brenneise and Mark Congdon, Jr. -- Honoring Vivencias : Vivencias : a borderlands approach to higher education pedagogy justice / Leandra H. Hernández and Sarah De Los Santos Upton -- Walking the tightrope : navigating the tensions of teaching and grading communication content inside and outside the discipline / Juliane Mora -- Student-activist mentor letters as a form of social movement-building in communication activism pedagogy / David L. Palmer -- Love letters gone wrong : complicating the romantic ideal of democratic processes in the college classroom / Londie T. Martin and Kristen A. McIntyre -- Are we just grading or grading justly? : adventures with non-traditional assessment / Kristen C. Blinne -- "Ungrading" communication : awareness pedagogy as activist assessment / Kristen C. Blinne -- Resisting the detrimental effects of grade inflation on university faculty and students through critical communication pedagogy / David H. Kahl, Jr. -- Rate my performance, or just sing along : a critical look at student evaluations of teaching / Summer R. Cunningham -- The seven lesson faculty member : outing assessment's harm to faculty / C. Kyle Rudick.
Summary:
In Grading Justice, new and seasoned teachers are invited to 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.
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