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Education and distributive justice: Some reflections on grading systems.
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“students depend on grades (Covington & Mu ¨eller, 2001), as grades are determined by an external source and students have limited control over the quality of the grade, grading being explicitly or implicitly normative in nature (Deutsch, 1979; Thorndike, 1913)”
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“Deutsch (1979), who posited that grades have a manifest function as a tool of socialization used to prepare students for the competitive, meritocratic world of adult professional life.”
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- Authors
- Deutsch, M.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Deutsch, Morton
- Venue
- American Psychologist
- Published
- 1979-05
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 391-401
- ISSN
- 0003-066X (ISSN-L)
- 1935-990X
- OpenAlex
- W1978981303
- Cited by
- 108
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 7.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Psychologist (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Student Assessment and Feedback
- Social Sciences › Education › Educational Assessment and Pedagogy
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Keywords
- grading system, distributive justice, educational equity, student assessment, grading practices
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