Alternative Online Assessment Practices: Empowering Students, Ensuring Equity & Maintaining Rigor

Description  ChallengeTo empower students and ensure the equity and fairness of assessments, especially during COVID-19.Key TakeawayIn this webinar, participants will learn about alternate forms of grading and assessment that involve and empower students, including contract grading, specifications grading, ungrading, and student self-assessments. We will also discuss these approaches and how they benefit learners.OverviewCOVID-19 has thrown into sharp focus the shortcomings of traditional forms of assessment, including extensive, summative final exams. With the controversy around proctoring software and general concerns about fairness and equity in asking students to write high-stakes exams under less than ideal circumstances, faculty have been looking for alternate assessment modes for their courses. This webinar will introduce and discuss various grading and assessment forms that increase student agency and engagement in and with the process. These approaches include contr