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Researchers find lower grades given to students with surnames that come later in alphabetical order (phys.org)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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As graders go on grading, their comments become more frustrated and their good-will becomes much sloppier. At least that's the hypothesis to explain this. Researchers found the reverse effect on graders who sorted in reverse-alphabetical order.

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[–] bcoffy@lemmy.world 84 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I’m a graduate student who does a lot of grading. Canvas gives me an option to: 1. Hide students’ names while grading and 2. sort in order of submission instead of alphabetical order, so I make sure to use both of those options to reduce any biases like that.

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why in order of submission? Why not random?

[–] bcoffy@lemmy.world 71 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I only get two options: Alphabetical order and submission order. If I had random I would use it.

[–] kurwa@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you think order of submission has any bias towards it?

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, you assume the early submitters are on top of it and do better work.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

And, even as one who rarely submitted assignments early, IMO it's fair to give the early submissions the advantage of marking fatigue bias. Kinda like a time bonus.