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Tiêu đề

Grades and ranking: When tenure affects assessment

Tác giả

Filetti J.; Wright M.; King W.M.

Năm xuất bản

2010

Source title

Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84893602697&partnerID=40&md5=cc36232b72c4474e5847ef38f743dbb9

Tóm tắt

This article examines how a faculty member's status-either tenured or tenure-track-might affect the grades assigned to students in a writing class. We begin with a brief review of the research surrounding faculty to student assessment practices and follow with specific controversies regarding faculty motivation pertaining to grading practices. We interpret the grade distributions of tenured and tenure-track faculty members teaching a sophomore-level writing course in an English Department at a small, public liberal arts university in Virginia, examine the relationship between grade distributions and faculty rank, and conclude that tenure-track faculty grade more leniently than their tenured colleagues, primarily in the number of "A" grades assigned. The results of this study suggest that tenured professors tend to award fewer "As" than tenure-track professors. We posit that at universities where emphasis is placed upon teaching, two specific patterns emerge: reciprocity may be an unspoken agreement between some faculty and students with regard to the exchange of good grades for good evaluations, or with experience comes rigor.

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