DJ Quinn is a lecturer in the UC Davis University Writing Program, where he was previously a graduate student, and teaches whatever courses need coverage. His teaching and scholarly interests include contract grading, trauma-informed pedagogy, and disability and writing pedagogy.
Throughout your time in school, most of your classes have probably been graded. If you met certain criteria, you received an “A,” a “B,” a “C,” and so on. Maybe your school used numbers, grades, or GPA-style grading, but whatever the grades looked like, the mechanism was pretty similar. Your teachers probably used a combination of tests, quizzes, essays, presentations,...
