Review of Effective Alternative Assessment Practices in Higher Education, by Antione D. Tomlin and Christine M. Nowik

This book is one volume in the series Research,Theory, and Practice within Academic Affairs by series editors Antione D. Tomlin and Sherella Cupid. This volume is edited by Antione D. Tomlin and Christine M. Nowik. The chapters are written by different authors, each of whom teaches in higher education in a wide variety of disciplines. They describe their journey to alternative grading and how they use various non-traditional gradingtechniques in their college classrooms. Written bypractitioners who have already implementedalternative grading practices, the authors describetheir experiences, their successes as well as theirfailures, and what lessons they learned along the way. They provide practical and theoretical guidance that can be applied to many disciplines for those who wish to know more about alternative grading techniques, such as standards-based grading, contract grading, labor-based grading, and ungrading, across a wide variety ofdisciplines. They also address challenges of organizational leaders in higher education and ways for them to support faculty at four-year universities, community colleges, online courses, and face-to-face classrooms. This book was written to provide guidance for practitioners and their leadership.