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Should spelling and grammar count?
I'm spending my weekend marking exams and papers. As always, I have to decide, "Should I take off marks for spelling mistakes and grammatical errors?" Grades are a measure of a student's abilities, skills, and knowledge. They are used by admission committees in deciding a student's potential for graduate work (a master's degree, or law […]
Republican profs give out less egalitarian grades. So what?
A number of bloggers (for example Mark Perry, Catherine Rampell, Greg Mankiw) have picked up Bar and Zussman's recent paper on Partisan Grading. (Downloadable here, forthcoming here) Bar and Zussman take data on student grades, student SAT scores, and professor political affiliation, and find that: …student grades are linked to the political orientation of professors: […]
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