Implementing Skills-Based Grading in a Linguistics Course

maura o’leary is a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics at the University of Califor-nia, Los Angeles. Her pedagogical research focuses on equitable and inclusive methods for teaching and evaluation in university-level linguistics courses. Her dissertation provides a formal model of nominal evaluation times at the syntax-semantics interface, part of a larger research program on understudied effects of tense. She additionally conducts fieldwork on the critically endangered Alaskan Dene language Hän and heads the Hän Revitalization Project. Email: mauraoleary@ucla.edu.

richard stockwell is a postdoctoral junior research fellow in linguistics at Christ Church, University of Oxford. He teaches and researches in syntax and semantics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2020. His dissertation is titled “Contrast and Verb Phrase Ellipsis: Triviality, Symmetry, and Competition.” His previous degrees are from the University of Cambridge. Email: richard.stockwell@chch.ox.ac.uk.