<p>I'm in an IT ethics class to fulfill one of the exit requirements to graduate, and the class is separated into teams, the teams have to give presentations on different topics. </p>
<p>The first group went last week, and to everyone's surprise; the professor publicly told them how poorly planned the presentation was, and told them their grade publicly, and also gave up copies of the rubric used against the group for everyone to see. Embarrassing for the first group! </p>
<p>This works out for me, because now we can do a flawless presentation after learning from all of the mistakes of the first group. More motivation to do good if the grades are public. </p>
<p>I already did an investigation and found out that there are no other pre-med students in my group, which is good. There are a few in other groups though. </p>
<p>Has a professor ever made grades public in any of your courses? Is that sort of conduct allowed at your school? A student countered that it was unfair ethically to do public grading, is he correct or incorrect?</p>
<p>I’ve never had any professors make their students’ grades entirely public, unless they happened to announce who received the highest score. I’ve had professors, however, who did pass around a piece of paper with student ID numbers and their individual grade next to each number. Basically, if you knew another student’s ID number, you would know their grade.</p>
<p>My university actually has entirely anonymous marking. You just put your ID number on your work.</p>
<p>Although if you go and talk to the tutor about your essay, they know who it is.
And they can just look up students behind the ID numbers in 5 seconds.</p>
<p>One tutor said he looked up the students behind the very best essays and the very worst essays.</p>
<p>Yep. My acting class professor graded each group and gave them out allowed. Of course, at this point, everyone had finished, but he did say them. There was a 95, 89, 80, 80, and 80. I was in the 89 group.</p>
<p>In high school, I had teachers who would say our grades out loud, but they’d usually ask us if we minded them saying them out loud before hand.</p>
<p>I think you’ll never get a “correct answer”. It’s a rule based on opinions and while your university believes that public grades are unethical that not might be the case in other areas. I know for a fact that when my mom was young her entire school was based on giving out public grades in front of all the students. It was in high school and apparently the universities around the area where even worse when it came with grades. I basically see it as this:</p>
<p>Pro: The embarrassment has the student learn from their mistakes and to try harder next time along with setting an example for the other students.</p>
<p>Con: It hurts their self-esteem and and creates a learning environment filled with anxiety.</p>
<p>Though, I can’t help but feel what he did in ethics class somewhat ironic.</p>
<p>You’re presuming that it’s unethical to announce grades publicly. Infact, you do so after you admit that it’s subjective. </p>
<p>I’m trying to think of a case in college where I have been able to match names to scores on a list. I don’t think I’ve had one. I have however seen ID numbers matched with scores.</p>