Erturk, Sinan and Van Tilburg, Wijnand and Igou, Eric (2022) 'Off the mark: Repetitive marking undermines essay evaluations due to boredom.' Motivation and Emotion, 46 (2). pp. 264-275. ISSN 0146-7239 (In Press)
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Abstract
Essay-style assessment is widespread in education. Nonetheless, research shows that this tool can suffer from low reliability and validity. We attribute this problem partly to the boredom that marking multiple essays causes. Specifically, we propose that boredom in markers is associated with systematically lower marks on essays. To test this, we asked participants (N = 100) with an undergraduate degree to mark essays. The majority of these participants had at least some experience with marking. After marking each essay, participants indicated how bored they were. We found an increase in boredom over time and that higher boredom was associated with lower marks. Furthermore, offering a marking rubric did not prevent this problematic impact of boredom. These findings have implications for the validity of essays as an assessment tool and raise concerns about repetitive marking practices in general.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Boredom; Negativity bias; Assessments; Marking; Education; Emotion |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
| SWORD Depositor: | Elements |
| Depositing User: | Elements |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2022 20:32 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Mar 2022 20:34 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/32155 |
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