Exam fairness

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dc.creatorBouville, Mathieu
dc.date2008-03-29
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:29:18Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:29:18Z
dc.descriptionIt is widely agreed that exams must be fair; yet what this exactly means is not made clear. One may mean fairness of treatment, but this merely propagates the fairness or unfairness of pre-existing rules. Fairness of opportunity on the other hand necessarily leads to identical grades for everyone, which clearly makes it inapplicable. Neither view is helpful to make decisions on competing claims: fairness of treatment ignores the problem and fairness of opportunity holds all claims to be equally valid. To escape this deadlock one needs an external criterion to replace fairness viewed as student-student comparison. Keywords: assessment; bias; engineering education; examinations; grading; justice; tests
dc.description5 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0803.4235
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0803.4235
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/157734
dc.subjectGeneral Physics
dc.subjectPhysics Education
dc.titleExam fairness
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