Bad news for Walkers, Youngs, and Zimmermans! Students with surnames that come later in the alphabet are given lower grades, 熟考する／考慮する finds
- Students with surnames later in the alphabet are given lower grades?
- Teachers might get more irritable the その上の they get through the alphabet
If you 定期的に received low grades at school, there's good news ? it may not have been a reflection of your 知能.
Instead, a new 熟考する／考慮する 示唆するs that your surname may have been to 非難する.
研究員s from the University of Michigan say that students with surnames that come later in the alphabet are given lower grades.
What's more, these students tend to receive ruder comments on their work, によれば the 研究員s.
'This may be something that happened unconsciously by the graders that's 現実に creating a real social 衝撃,' said Helen Wang, co-author of the 熟考する／考慮する.
If you 定期的に received low grades at school, there's good news ? it may not have been a reflection of your 知能. Instead, a new 熟考する／考慮する 示唆するs that your surname may have been to 非難する (在庫／株 image)
In the 熟考する／考慮する, the team analysed more than 30 million grading 記録，記録的な／記録するs from students at the University of Michigan.
The assignments had been submitted through Canvas ? the most 広範囲にわたって used online learning 管理／経営 system around the world.
Importantly, Canvas 料金d these papers to the teachers for grading in alphabetical order by default.
The team's 分析 明らかにする／漏らすd a （疑いを）晴らす pattern of a 拒絶する／低下する in grading 質 as the teachers 評価するd more assignments.
Students whose surnames began with A, B, C, D, or E received a 0.3-point higher grade out of 100 possible points, compared to when they were graded 無作為に.
The 推論する／理由 for the findings remains 不明瞭な, although the 研究員s 示唆する that teachers might get tired and more irritable the その上の they get through the alphabet (在庫／株 image)
In contrast, students whose surnames began with letters later in the alphabet received a 0.3-point lower grade.
While this 0.6-point difference might sound small, the 研究員s say that, over time, this 不平等 can 影響する／感情 students' grade 普通の／平均（する）s ? and 示唆する it might even 衝撃 their 未来 career paths.
The 推論する／理由 for the findings remains 不明瞭な, although the 研究員s 示唆する that teachers might get tired and more irritable the その上の they get through the alphabet.
'We 肉親，親類d of 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う that 疲労，（軍の）雑役 is one of the major factors that is 運動ing this 影響,' said Jiaxin Pei, co-author of the 熟考する／考慮する.
'When you're working on something for a long period of time, you get tired and then you start to lose your attention and your cognitive abilities are dropping.'
Based on the findings, the 研究員s 示唆する that teachers should 努力する／競う to 示す assignments in a 無作為の order.
And for bigger 会・原則s, they say more graders should be 雇うd to 避ける grading 疲労，（軍の）雑役.
