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.

  • 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”