Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd
by ska on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:12PM
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This also depends quite a bit on class size. If you are one of 9 profs and 36 TA's on a whole year of a 1st year intro course, you can get together and batch mark finals very effectively blind.
If you are teaching a 4th yr/masters mixed class of 11 by yourself, you pretty much get to know who is who whether you want to or not. I suppose avoiding handwriting can help if it's appropriate (e.g., won't work on a math course) but I suspect you'll know everyones style by then anyway.
And while it was possible to de-anonymise, the academics were all in support of blind grading so why would they?
The only exceptions were projects where everyone was assigned a different topic, and graded presentations.
Of course, this is simpler in STEM subjects - it's not like you can guess someone's race or gender from their switching power supply design. Subjects that prize in-class participation and lengthy essays would probably be harder to blind-grade effectively.