Information Feedback in Relative Grading: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Shinya Kajitani (kajitani@cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp), Keiichi Morimoto (keiichi.morimoto@meisei-u.ac.jp) and Shiba Suzuki

No 40, Discussion Papers from Meisei University, School of Economics

Abstract: The impact of relative performance information feedback could vary according to each student's previous examination performance. Binary grade environments enable us to identify the heterogeneous impacts of this feedback. Conducting a randomized control trial employing a compulsory course in economics at a Japanese university, we show the heterogeneous impacts of relative performance information feedback attributable to the students' earlier examination scores under a binary grade environment. Our experimental results prove that previous performance information feedback improves the performance of students with only intermediate scores but worsens the performance of high-scoring students in their next examination.

Keywords: education; experiments; relative performance information feedback; relative grading (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2018-07, Revised 2019-09-09
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