Michelle Cowan

Developing an App to Support Ungrading: Making Non-Traditional Grading Easier with a Standalone Web Application

Michelle Cowan is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Washington & Lee University. Michelle’s scholarship focuses on assessment and equity in the classroom, the workplace, and healthcare. In 2020, she published a history of grading contract use in composition in the Journal of Writing Assessment and has an article, co-authored with Dr. Callie Kostelich, coming out in the Fall 2023 issue of Peitho, describing a program-wide grading contract initiative developed with a team of graduate students at Texas Tech University. She is committed to practicing anti-racist assessment and training others in grading methods that are inclusive of neurodiverse students.