Why Do Teachers Give Girls Higher Marks than Boys?
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-teachers-girls-higher-boys-italian.html?utm_campaign=Recruiting%20Brainfood&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletterASSESSMENT
Issue #315
23 Oct 2022
The analysis also showed that when a boy and a girl were similarly competent at a subject, the girl would typically receive a higher grade.
The reflexive hostility to technology assisted assessment often discounts how biased human assessors are and might inherently be. Important research from Italy, which finds that the ‘gender grade gap’ may well come from human error, with profound implications for society, and not insignificant ones for us in recruiting. Human assessors are not a great benchmark to measure AI assessment tech.