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Archive for May 20th, 2011

Friday, May 20th, 2011

I grade with a colloidal silver pen, of course

By Thoreau
A study of how liberal and conservative professors grade (.pdf) has gotten some attention. The soundbite version is that two economists studied grading patterns of professors at a large, elite university for several years, and found that Democrats tend to give fewer grades at the high and low ends of the scale, while [...]