Anonymous grading isn't entirely anonymous. This is especially true in fields like law where you have written responses. You can actually tell who wrote what based on their participation in class and what they choose to write about to answer a question. There's lots of markers like this. Sometimes it's blatent too. If a teacher wanted to help a pretty girl he would simply tell her to write some sort of code on her exam.
I once entered an incredibly prestigious finance competition where the winners got pretty much guaranteed investment banking jobs at top firms. I actually came down to the final 20 but then lost. Grading was "anonymous" It came out during the compeittion though that friends of those grading everything where given a code to indicate on their final report so the graders knew who their friends were and marked them higher.
I guess any system could potentially be corrupted if there is extreme levels of cheating with collusion from the graders, but it does make it much more difficult and in your example, they got caught.
Anonymous grading isn't entirely anonymous. This is especially true in fields like law where you have written responses. You can actually tell who wrote what based on their participation in class and what they choose to write about to answer a question. There's lots of markers like this. Sometimes it's blatent too. If a teacher wanted to help a pretty girl he would simply tell her to write some sort of code on her exam.
I once entered an incredibly prestigious finance competition where the winners got pretty much guaranteed investment banking jobs at top firms. I actually came down to the final 20 but then lost. Grading was "anonymous" It came out during the compeittion though that friends of those grading everything where given a code to indicate on their final report so the graders knew who their friends were and marked them higher.
I guess any system could potentially be corrupted if there is extreme levels of cheating with collusion from the graders, but it does make it much more difficult and in your example, they got caught.
at my university (not in the US) most pieces of coursework are marked externally, we are never told where its marked to by whom
Yeah, this doesn’t happen anywhere in Aus, lol…
Not sure where you are, but coursework is most definitely marked internally, here…
Somewhat regrettably.
It keeps out opportunistic theives. Not sure if the analogy really fits.