A Rubric for Equitable Grading Practices

Equitable grading practices, particularly the ''A's for All'' approach, aim to enhance student success for a diverse set of learners through formative assessments, eliminating curving, cumulative exams, lower-stakes assessments with retakes, and flexible extensions. Yet there is no common language to compare initiatives. To address this, we are developing a rubric to highlight which equitable grading elements are implemented in a course. This could benefit departments, who might showcase rubric scores to highlight faculty efforts; and students and advisors, who could make data-driven scheduling decisions. This poster presents our work-in-progress ten-point rubric, an example scoreboard application to four courses, and future work. Our hope is that this can eventually become a community owned-and-adopted lingua franca when discussing equitable grading practices.