In this episode Sharona and Bosley sit down with Colin Madland, a listener of the podcast from Canada. Colin wrote us in response to a request on a previous episode to learn more about what is going on in Canada. In addition to sharing about the state of Alternative Grading in Canada, Colin also shared his expertise as a Ph.D. candidate in education technology whose research is in technology integrated assessment. He is also a former high school physical education teacher, so we get to explore alt grading in a discipline that was new to both Sharona and Bosley.

Links

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About Colin:

• https://cmad.land 
• https://bsky.app/profile/cmad.bsky.social

Colin's Publications:

• Technology-Integrated Assessment: A Literature Review
• Developing the Technology-Integrated Assessment Framework

British Columbia Education Reforms:

• K-12 Student Reporting Policy for British Columbia
• K-12 Student Reporting Information for Parents and Caregivers
• Student Reporting Policy Pilot

Colin's Ph.D. Committee:

• Valerie Irvine - University of Victoria: https://www.uvic.ca/education/curriculum/faculty-staff/faculty/about/experts/profiles/irvine-valerie.php, https://valerieirvine.ca/
• Chris DeLuca - Queens University Ontario: https://educ.queensu.ca/people/chris-deluca, https://research.qut.edu.au/c4ie/people/chris-deluca/
• Okan Bulut - University of Alberta: https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/bulut, https://github.com/okanbulut

SAMR Model - Integrating Technology Into Teaching

• https://taylorinstitute.ucalgary.ca/resources/SAMR-TPACK
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666557322000210

The Six R's of Indigenous Education and Orange Shirt Day

• A Research Publication and Grant Preparation Program for Native American Faculty in STEM: Implementation of the Six R’s Indigenous Framework
• Orange Shirt Society

Resources

The Center for Grading Reform - seeking to advance education in the United States by supporting effective grading reform at all levels through conferences, educational workshops, professional development, research and scholarship, influencing public policy, and community building.

The Grading Conference - an annual, online conference exploring Alternative Grading in Higher Education & K-12.

Some great resources to educate yourself about Alternative Grading:

• The Grading for Growth Blog
• The Grading Conference
• The Intentional Academia Blog

Recommended Books on Alternative Grading (Please note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!):

• Grading for Growth, by Robert Talbert and David Clark
• Specifications Grading, by Linda Nilsen
• Undoing the Grade, by Jesse Stommel
• Grading for Equity, by Joe Feldman

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