jdthedisciple4d ago

Attractive students no longer receive better results as classes moved online

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016517652200283X

Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching

This paper examines the role of student facial attractiveness on academic outcomes under various forms of instruction, using data from engineering stu…

Show threadjeremie_strand
Anonymizing grading wherever posible seems like the obvious policy response here. The fact that many universities still haven't standardized blind grading for written work — even after decades of evidence on evaluator bias — says a lot about institutional inertia.
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Show threadAurornis4d ago

I don’t think it’s that simple. My assistant professor friends build relationships with students and help them work on topics and weaknesses. They get to know students and how to help them on problem areas.

For deeper courses they may help them pick topics to write about and sources to read.

Having that context for the ongoing feedback from grading and mentoring is valuable. Depending on the work it simply might not be possible to do anything blind.

Even without names, handwriting and writing styles are obvious. Even in an office setting I can always tell who wrote something as small as a sign or a note by handwriting or word choice alone.

Show threadbombcar4d ago
Yes, unless you have the grading done by someone else in some sort of double-blind setup, or replace everything with computer-graded multiple-choice questions, you're still going to be pretty identifiable.