Hidden Inequities in Labor-Based Contract Grading

Ellen C. Carillo is professor of English at the University of Connecticut and the writing program coordinator at its Waterbury Campus. She is the author of Securing a Place for Reading in Composition, A Writer’s Guide to Mindful Reading, Teaching Readers in Post-Truth America, Reading and Writing Instruction in the Twenty-First Century, and the MLA Guide to Digital Literacy, as well as the coeditor of Teaching Critical Reading and Writing in the Era of Fake News and Reading Critically, Writing Well. Her scholarship has appeared in several journals and edited collections.

“A useful tool for helping us assess the equity and inclusion of labor-based grading contracts in our own classrooms and for opening further avenues of research on the impact of this assessment methodology on students.”—Composition Forum  “Provides a compelling, much-needed reminder that writ­ing instructors must be purposeful, reflective, and responsive to all stu­dents when adopting new pedagogical practices.”—Journal of Response to Writing  “Carillo offers a disabilities studies lens through which she explores the implications of labor-based contract grading among disabled and neurodivergent students, departing from the raciolinguistic lens that has informed much of the existing work on contract grading.”—The Journal of Writing Assessment