Craft and StructureVery hardReconciling two views on a practice
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Grading student essays anonymously, with names hidden, removes the risk that a teacher's expectations about a student colour the mark, and should be standard practice.
Text 2
Anonymous grading does reduce bias, but it also strips away information a good teacher uses: whether this essay shows progress for this student, or a lapse. A mark given blind is fairer across the class and less useful to the individual.
Which choice best describes how the author of Text 2 responds to the position in Text 1?
- A. By accepting its main benefit while identifying a cost it overlooks.Correct
- B. By denying that anonymous grading reduces bias.
- C. By arguing that teachers' expectations are always accurate.
- D. By proposing that essays not be graded at all.
Answer: A. By accepting its main benefit while identifying a cost it overlooks.
'Does reduce bias, but' — then the lost information about the individual student.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By denying that anonymous grading reduces bias.
- Text 2 says it 'does reduce bias'.
- C. By arguing that teachers' expectations are always accurate.
- Not claimed.
- D. By proposing that essays not be graded at all.
- Not proposed.
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