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Developing effective assignments and figuring out how to assess student learning meaningfully are at the core of what we do as instructors. Providing multiple forms of engagement and multiple strategies for assessment also helps make our classrooms more accessible to all students. The following resources are intended to help you with both of those critical aspects of teaching.

Designing effective assignments

• (from the Macalester Writing Center)
• (developed by ACM colleagues)
• : “a systematic way to be transparent about the purpose, task, and criteria of assignments to promote students’ learning” (Willingham-McLain, 2017)
• The
• (including lots of references to “unessay” projects, which also leads to many references to “ungrading” – see below)
• The offers assignment prompts for the use of ChatGPT and other AI tools
• (Davidson, 2020)
• National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment’s

Perspectives & Strategies for Providing Feedback, Grading, & Assessing Student Learning

• ([featured during SPAW 2023] Dickson & Housiaux, The Tang Institute at Andover)
• (MAX Center)
• (Rice University Center for Teaching Excellence)
• (a collection of perspectives and resources from the University of Rhode Island’s Office for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning)
•  (Lang, 2021)
• (Gavin P. Johnson, 2021)
• Low-stakes

Contract and Specifications Grading / Ungrading

• (Masland, 2023)
• (McCloud, 2023)
• (Talbert, 2023)
• (Inoue, 2019) 
• (Inoue, adapted from Elbow)
• (Warner, 2016)
•  (Talbert, 2017)
• (Stommel, 2018)
•  (Blum, 2017)
• (Dolson, 2022)
• (Times Higher Education, 2022)
• Resources from