Working Group Literature Review
The initial contents of this Playbook were identified using a systematic literature review. The review process is documented in our working group report (under review for publication). The question this literature review aimed to answer was:
What grading practices have been used in STEM courses to:
- Focus attention on learning outcomes instead of grading, or
- Improve equity, or
- Improve the student learning experience.
We used the following search query on Google Scholar to identify documents that might describe “plays” (grading practices) that could answer this question:
(~grading|"mastery grading"|"alternative grading"| "specification grading"|
"specifications grading"|"mastery learning"|"specs grading"|
"grading for equity"|"ungrading”|"un-grading"|"contract grading")
(practice|strategy|technique|tactic|method)
(~equity|~improving)
We focused on the top 200 results found by Google Scholar, which were downloaded using Publish or Perish:
CSV of search query 200 results
We then manually reviewed the 200 results, applying the specific inclusion and exclusion criteria documented in our report, narrowing the scope to 40 papers meeting our stated criteria:
See our working group report for details on these papers, including a table showing which plays came from each paper and full bibliographic citations for all papers.