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ERIC Number: EJ1300317
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Aug
Pages: 23
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ISSN: ISSN-1052-5629
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Grade Expectations: When 100% Isn't Good Enough
Ruppert, Bryan; Hoption, Colette
Journal of Management Education, v45 n4 p535-557 Aug 2021
Embracing a positive-psychology approach to well-being, this study aimed at identifying how to maximize students' pleasure when receiving grades. Results from two experiments showed that students gained greater pleasure when receiving feedback in letter-grade format than in percentage scores. The results are consistent with social-psychological and sociocognitive research wherein coarser (as opposed to more granular) feedback is easier to process, provides superior self-affirming feedback, and, subsequently, garners greater pleasure. As the management discipline wrestles with being "too scientific," an impression aligned with precise percentage scores, use of a coarser feedback system may present a unique auxiliary benefit to the discipline. We invite future research on whether a system can be too coarse, on faculty's amenability to coarse grading systems, and on the concurrent use of multiple grading systems varying in coarseness.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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