Crab Mentality, Cyberbullying and “Name and Shame” Rankings
September 11, 2017 3:40 AM Subscribe
The hypothesis we examine is that, in a country like New Zealand where crab mentality is an accepted norm … the addition of cyberbullying creates a perfect storm for underachievement where it is logical for students to fear standing out as tall poppies in rankings and so they will perform worse on average in exams and collude more in assessed course work to increase the chance that their grades are close to others.
Crab Mentality, Cyberbullying and “Name and Shame” Rankings. Simon Spacey (2015, University of Waikato)
We test this hypothesis through the introduction of a novel rank reporting approach that allows relative achievements to be published to motivate students and encourage confidence in the assessment process...while making it more difficult for others to determine the position of a particular student in a ranking without their consent...
...The traditional Student Name ranking approach simply provides a list of student names ordered by their position in the class often with a column of actual mark values. The approach has the advantage of being perhaps the most strait-forward to understand and use and allows students to quickly identify their own position and show their position in a ranking to others...
...However Student Name rankings do not provide any form of privacy at all which is perhaps why New Zealand students call such rankings “Name and Shame” rankings and why many will complain to department heads if a lecturer uses [them]...
...the average test/exam marks increased significantly after introducing higher rank reporting privacy... The results indicate that over 70% of the students are concerned with the privacy of traditional rank reporting approaches and that average student performance may be affected by almost 20% by these concerns.
Crab Mentality
Tall Poppy Syndrome
Previously
Previously
We test this hypothesis through the introduction of a novel rank reporting approach that allows relative achievements to be published to motivate students and encourage confidence in the assessment process...while making it more difficult for others to determine the position of a particular student in a ranking without their consent...
...The traditional Student Name ranking approach simply provides a list of student names ordered by their position in the class often with a column of actual mark values. The approach has the advantage of being perhaps the most strait-forward to understand and use and allows students to quickly identify their own position and show their position in a ranking to others...
...However Student Name rankings do not provide any form of privacy at all which is perhaps why New Zealand students call such rankings “Name and Shame” rankings and why many will complain to department heads if a lecturer uses [them]...
...the average test/exam marks increased significantly after introducing higher rank reporting privacy... The results indicate that over 70% of the students are concerned with the privacy of traditional rank reporting approaches and that average student performance may be affected by almost 20% by these concerns.
Crab Mentality
Tall Poppy Syndrome
Previously
Previously
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File under: academic studies that were obvious to any reasonable human, but good to have confirmed, I guess, 'cause for whatever reason apparently there are people out there (teaching, no less?!) who needed to be told explicitly that publishing a list of student names and ranks on tests is cruel and promotes conformity? I always assumed that, when you read about eg. British boys' boarding schools doing this sort of thing in the last century, the creation of a culture of conformity and casual cruelty/bullying was an intentional goal.
posted by eviemath at 4:00 AM on September 11, 2017
posted by eviemath at 4:00 AM on September 11, 2017
Hey, your pdf link is broken, at least here:
ERR_RESPONSE_HEADERS_MULTIPLE_CONTENT_DISPOSITION
posted by thelonius at 4:01 AM on September 11, 2017
ERR_RESPONSE_HEADERS_MULTIPLE_CONTENT_DISPOSITION
posted by thelonius at 4:01 AM on September 11, 2017
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