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.
I agree with this. It’s a bit like the first 2 pancakes, you have to go back over the first half a dozen once you’re in the zone.
I used to grade hard copies a lot, after I graded I’d put them in order from best to worst (numerical grades) and then do quick comparisons between an assignment and its neighbours in the pile. It’s an easy way to “quality control”.
As for the comments, that’s a self-discipline issue. If you’re giving, say, 4 positives and 4 negatives per assignment and have standard ways of phrasing, it shouldn’t deteriorate.
I think blind marking is important. I have literally heard people objecting to proposed grades with phrases like “but he’s a bad student” or “but she’s really bright.”
I can’t imagine how, unless you only had 20 of them or something?
Back when I was a TA, I had an average of 120 students per semester and we didn’t necessarily grade our own students’ work (it was usually divided by topic).
So if I’m grading 120 assignments - or worse, 480 pieces of exam assessment- and only 25% of them are from students I regularly interact with, I don’t think my subconscious has any idea 99% of the time.
Even with smaller classes… you’re just seeing too many people with similar thoughts and styles over the course of a year for any of it to imprint on your mind that deeply. Occasionally it’s going to be obvious, but I still think removing a level of bias through anonymizing is best practice.
The display was obviously misleading/ahistorical and it was a known problem, so paying to just put a new copy of a flawed display up again would be a problematic use of taxpayer funding.
People had been writing letters of complaint, petitions, trying to liaise with Te Papa for literally years about this problem with no action taken. There were also peaceful protests about it outside, pretty sure some of them got arrested in 2021 for gluing themselves to steps.
Side note, they didn’t break in. They did it in public during opening hours. They were charged with wilful damage not b&e.
Which made me wonder at the time… How on earth do you get away with bringing in all your gear and abseiling inside a public building with an angle grinder???
You’d think though in a building with as many rare/valuable artifacts as Te Papa… I mean, abseiling?? Then again I’m pretty sure one of the universities had people with clipboards load a ton of computers onto a truck and drive away, a few years ago.
In both cases, wouldn’t suprise me if there was an insider.
Heh in the context of this conversation I thought you were casually admitting to being a burglar for a second then… why do you turn up at buildings, is it a work thing?
It’s not even leaseshold proper. It’s baches on crown land with licenses that need renewing every 5 years. Some of them have until June 2024 and others another 15 years.
The thing is, no one was allowed to actually live in them full time until 2015. So I think what’s happened is people thought cool, an affordable way to have a house, poured all their money in and then this… but yeah they’ve known for years.
By “climate change” specifically the flooding means the council can’t give it a sewerage and wastewater system. People can be really deep in denial about climate stuff; you try to warn them and they think it’s “political”. Smh.
(I was just curious and read a bunch of articles to get a better picture. This from 2019 sets most of it out).
This, surely it’s more usual? The first time I ever reached out the person sent me three recent articles and an invitation to let them know when/where my research was published, even though it wasn’t relevant to their discipline.
I was a lowly grad student and he was a senior academic with his own lab. I’d heard of his research because it was mentioned in a science documentary on tv, and the whole experience really gave me a happy feeling.
I can see why ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world only did it the one time after the experience they had, though.
We were away for a week and left it on the side of the road. Doesn’t look like they were particularly competent, as they ruined the ignition but didn’t manage to start it....
Was just talking about how cool New Zealand’s rare frogs are and wanted to share. These frogs evolved to have no ears, so they also have no croaking noises (what’s the point if the mates you are trying to attract are deaf) which is unique!...
both the education and health systems are getting absolutely butchered by this government and this is definitely going to impact you and the people around you.
Great. I’m already on month 15 of waiting for an appointment that the letter from the hospital told me was going to be a 6-8 month wait.
Seems we’re in a “post truth” era here in New Zealand as well. This article has Luxon saying he doesn’t want spin doctors and then Dr Shane Reti literally trying to spin this story.
Omg I remember Diablo! When Diablo 1 came out, my whole flat’s social life went on pause until we’d finished it! It’s cool that you’re reconnecting with your friend.
Spring onions, mmmm.
Nope sadly it’s just plain old indica. Neighbour seems to have a patch of it but I can’t point the finger too hard since we are the ones who have tradescantia.
Yeah? Sounds fun, will give it a go sometime. (We’re currently only watching one show a night and it has to be Forbryndelsen or I will riot). I quite enjoy silly space shows like Red Dwarf and Lexx though it’s probably not quite that far along.
The virus I had wasn’t a cold, it mainly involved severe vertigo, though it then turns into a respiratory infection as a complication in pediatric patients, apparently. I guess if your kids start throwing up, ask them if the room is spinning!
I thought it’s just that they have smaller bodies?
Yeah viral vertigo was kind of horrendous. If you’ve ever been knocked out by a blow to the head, at one point it felt like that only for hours not seconds. Glad it’s gone!
Cool, I’ll put that show on my list. Forbrydelsen isn’t going to last forever.
I miscounted my caterpillars btw, there’s at least 7!
But the germs aren’t smaller, I mean if a kid gets attacked by a bear…
The crystals thing is sweet as, BPPV, it’s when crystals land on these balance-sensing hairs in your inner ear and give you vertigo, but there’s this short maneuver exercise you do that dislodges them and shifts them somewhere else. I’ve had it a few times in my life and always shifted them no problem.
Some people get recurring BPPV and apparently you need a physio to help with some other manouver if they’re in a hard to reach place.
But with a virus its when the actual part of your ear with the hairs in it gets inflamed and messes them up, can be for weeks, an unlucky few never recover properly. The manouvers don’t touch it. Then the third cause is this thing called a vestibular migraine some people just get.
I hope they remove your stress too! I think there’s an adjustment period but hopefully it will be fast. People underestimate the amount of social isolation that comes with hearing loss.
Maybe it was the brain tumour, that poor person! The crystals usually get dislodged in just a few iterations (sometimes 1), it’s not like building up muscles. As far as I know.
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Researchers find lower grades given to students with surnames that come later in alphabetical order (phys.org)
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.
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Cool short video about unique Archey's Frog (m.youtube.com)
Was just talking about how cool New Zealand’s rare frogs are and wanted to share. These frogs evolved to have no ears, so they also have no croaking noises (what’s the point if the mates you are trying to attract are deaf) which is unique!...
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both the education and health systems are getting absolutely butchered by this government and this is definitely going to impact you and the people around you.
Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 19/4/2024
Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!...