Grade equity at MCPS

[Anonymous]

With a lot of stuff being online now I think MCPS needs to do some studies of bias in grading and report those findings to the public as part of their equity initiatives. They should do things like break the grades down by race and gender for each teacher, section and school to see if there are any outlier grading patterns.

They should also do anonymous grading for some randomly selected teachers in subjects like English and History or anything else that requires writing and where the grading is highly subjective to see whether there are biases by teachers, departments and schools.

Based on what they find they could offer recommendations to help teachers. Just by virtue of having this research or auditing teachers would feel more pressure to be unbiased in their grading.

[Anonymous]

I would be interested in this

[Anonymous]

I think MCPS should implement anonymous grading for English assignments in particular. I think some colleges do that. It's actually a feature in Canvas so the teacher gets the assignments submitted but they are not attached to names.

[Anonymous]

Where are the local journalists when you need them. In other school districts you could get anonymized grades like this and analyze.

[Anonymous]

I don't feel that subjecting our kids to more silly experiments in education is all that helpful. Better to focus on educating kids than this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are the local journalists when you need them. In other school districts you could get anonymized grades like this and analyze.

Why would journalists give a flying?

[Anonymous]

More subterfuge. Hold workshops for low achieving schools parents about how to monitor and advocate their kids school and let the rest of us get back to learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More subterfuge. Hold workshops for low achieving schools parents about how to monitor and advocate their kids school and let the rest of us get back to learning.

I should clarify: get back to learning academic subject matter.

[Anonymous]

You must be white. Biased grading is a real concern in the United States and multiple studies have shown terrible bias by teachers especially in English in their grading. Kids can't really learn properly when the grading does not accurately reflect their achievements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are the local journalists when you need them. In other school districts you could get anonymized grades like this and analyze.

Why would journalists give a flying?

Because documenting systemic bias and bringing that to light is a public service in a democracy. We've heard about many biased teachers at DC's school but no one ever does anything about it despite complaints over years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are the local journalists when you need them. In other school districts you could get anonymized grades like this and analyze.

Why would journalists give a flying?

Because documenting systemic bias and bringing that to light is a public service in a democracy. We've heard about many biased teachers at DC's school but no one ever does anything about it despite complaints over years.

I'm telling you as a former journalist, this isn't newsworthy. But have at it.

[Anonymous]

OP, I don't understand the impetus for this research you are proposing. What evidence have you seen of biased grading by race across MCPS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are the local journalists when you need them. In other school districts you could get anonymized grades like this and analyze.

Why would journalists give a flying?

Because documenting systemic bias and bringing that to light is a public service in a democracy. We've heard about many biased teachers at DC's school but no one ever does anything about it despite complaints over years.

What everything and what have you "heard" and how do you know race is the causational or even correlational factor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You must be white. Biased grading is a real concern in the United States and multiple studies have shown terrible bias by teachers especially in English in their grading. Kids can't really learn properly when the grading does not accurately reflect their achievements.

There is tons of bias in grading but it’s not just a race thing. It can be a handwriting thing, a gender thing, a topic thing, etc. My kids have the perspective that their English teachers have been biased against more highly able students by holding less highly able students to a much lower standard to get the same grades. I agree that when you have human teachers there might be bias, but so many assessments are auto graded. I guess the written assignments could be graded blind. I don’t know that we need some huge study when we already have limited resources and bigger pressing issues like so many students below grade level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You must be white. Biased grading is a real concern in the United States and multiple studies have shown terrible bias by teachers especially in English in their grading. Kids can't really learn properly when the grading does not accurately reflect their achievements.

There is tons of bias in grading but it’s not just a race thing. It can be a handwriting thing, a gender thing, a topic thing, etc. My kids have the perspective that their English teachers have been biased against more highly able students by holding less highly able students to a much lower standard to get the same grades. I agree that when you have human teachers there might be bias, but so many assessments are auto graded. I guess the written assignments could be graded blind. I don’t know that we need some huge study when we already have limited resources and bigger pressing issues like so many students below grade level.

Are you f-king kidding? You somehow know that that bias in grading is only a gender thing and other arbitrary things that you cited? But there's no racial bias in grading and you know that for sure?
Are you out of your mind?