Knowing your ABCs is essential to academic success, but having a last name starting with A, B or C might also help make the grade.

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.

  • AatubeOP
    2•8 months ago

    Not sure what you mean. Do you think that blind marking would somehow eradicate the bias onto these who get graded later?

    • Onno (VK6FLAB)
      -2•8 months ago

      No. Exactly the opposite. The problem continues to exist, but now it’s hidden.

      • chingadera
        5•8 months ago

        It’s improved at least, randomized would be different each time and would influence everyone’s grades evenly in a spread out period (in theory.)

          • chingadera
            3•8 months ago

            It’s less about the individual test, and more so spreading the human error across many tests rather than “the last few tests”