Un/learning grading: a collaborative autie-ethnographic exploration of unlearning an institutional impulse <i>to grade</i>
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This collaborative autie-ethnography deliberately centers labor—in and beyond the classroom—to call for coalitional theorizations of teaching that labor toward our collective survival and wellness from the perspective of neurodivergent thinking, writing, and worlding critical communication pedagogy (CCP), otherwise. The current study interrogates institutional impulses to act in accordance with organizational norms and often against our political commitments as pedagogues committed to intersectional social justice. To model our efforts, we reflect on the intentional act of shifting to an ungrading model with specific focus on: (1) theorizing cross-rank means of facilitating change in critical commune as neurodivergent teacher-learners and (2) the felt sensation of unlearning the institutional impulse to grade at all.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it