Perfectly Marked, Fair Tests with Unfair Marks

The Mathematical Gazette 93 (527):256-260 (2009)
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Abstract

Shows how, as a consequence of the Arrow Impossibility Theorem, objectivity in grading is chimerical, given a sufficiently knowledgeable teacher (of his students, not his subject) in a sufficiently small class. PDF available from JStor only; permission to post full version previously granted by journal editors and publisher expired. Unpublished reply posted gratis.

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