Mastery-based grading in Higher Education: Improving student learning, increasing student motivation, and recapturing the joy of teaching

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We will give an introduction to the philosophy behind mastery grading and share our experiences with this mode of grading across a number of STEM courses (Calculus and Linear Algebra) as well as its use in a large scale introductory General Education Statistics Course, where we are using mastery grading at scale. We have experimented with a number of different implementations and will share what we have learned in the process, in particular how to use this system in a set of coordinated courses with a group of instructors. We hope that you can take something useful for your own classes from this talk.