An overview of the research landscape on alternative grading practices in undergraduate STEM

Alternative grading strategies are increasingly popular in higher education, but research into the outcomes of these strategies is limited. NDSU's interdisciplinary DBER group recently published a scoping review which aims to provide an overview of the relevant research regarding alternative grading strategies in undergraduate STEM and identify gaps in the literature to inform future research. In this talk we'll discuss the tools being used to measure the effects of alternative grading, and citation analysis which show that research into alternative grading methods tends to occur in both disciplinary and practice-based silos. We will end with suggestions for authors of future publications in this area.