Anonymizing grading wherever posible seems like the obvious policy response here. The fact that many universities still haven't standardized blind grading for written work — even after decades of evidence on evaluator bias — says a lot about institutional inertia.

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Aurornis a day ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t think it’s that simple. My assistant professor friends build relationships with students and help them work on topics and weaknesses. They get to know students and how to help them on problem areas.

For deeper courses they may help them pick topics to write about and sources to read.

Having that context for the ongoing feedback from grading and mentoring is valuable. Depending on the work it simply might not be possible to do anything blind.

Even without names, handwriting and writing styles are obvious. Even in an office setting I can always tell who wrote something as small as a sign or a note by handwriting or word choice alone.

	▲	bombcar a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes, unless you have the grading done by someone else in some sort of double-blind setup, or replace everything with computer-graded multiple-choice questions, you're still going to be pretty identifiable.
	▲	jimbokun a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You would have to separate the teaching and assessment functions entirely.

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jdthedisciple 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Btw, anonymous grading would improve boys' grades as was shown in an interesting study (no link at hand but should be trivial to find).

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sh201 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

This would only matter if the students were unfairly graded, which the paper didn't demonstrate.

	▲	Jensson 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Other studies have shown girls gets higher grades than boys for the same essays. We don't know if that is related to attractiveness though, but we do know gender based discrimination do occur.