If you are curious about the research and thinking behind “Ungrading” or “Collaborative Grading”, you might be interested in the following sources:
- The Case Against Grades – Alfie Kohn
- How to Ungrade – Jesse Stommel
- Why Grades Are Not Paramount to Achievement – Ashley Lamb-Sinclair
- Grades vs Learning – Shifting Attention to What’s Important – The Grade Network
- Teaching More by Grading Less (or Differently) – Jeffrey Schinske and Kimberly Tanner, CBE Life Sci Educ. 2014 Summer; 13(2): 159–166.
- Effects of Grading on Student Learning and Alternative Assessment Strategies Assessment Strategies – Roxanna M. Krawczyk, 2017.