Ranking (average marks of) students

Kai Pastor (), Thorsten Schank and Klaus Wälde
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Kai Pastor: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

No 1907, Working Papers from Gutenberg School of Management and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Abstract: We discuss the principles behind the distribution of average marks of students. These principles need to be taken into account when computing the percentile of (an average mark of) a student. An informative percentile is obtained only if the average mark is compared to a distribution of averages of marks where the averages have been computed for the same number of credit points the student has obtained. We provide an empirical example from a university in Germany which shows that percentile information can differ considerably when based on different samples.

Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2019-05-20
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