Seeing the letter A before an exam can improve a student's exam result while exposure to the letter F may make a student more likely to fail. This is the finding of a study published in the British Journal of Educational Psychology in March 2010.

Exposure to letters A or F can affect test performance

John

What if you have an E before?

chris_morris wrote:

What if you have an E before?

...and T after.

John

If you don't read the newspaper then you are uninformed and
if you do read the newspaper then you are misinformed

z8000783 wrote:

Exposure to letters A or F can affect test performance

John

Would that work with a 'No.1' or '100%'? Applying the same reasoning, it should..

I read something similar a while back about using red ink. Teachers were being encouraged to mark up papers with different colors. (I later read how the color red tends to be associated with all kinds of bad stuff, even instinctively.)

Some claim that teachers marking only what is wrong teaches students to look only for what's wrong in their lives. While I don't really agree with that (I think that behavior is instinctive), are any of you aware of experiments in which teachers marked only what their students got right? It'd be interesting to see if it made any difference.

Wow! Could it be? A ritual frame?

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How interesting!
When I wa doing a Royal Horticultural society course some years ago question papers were marked with points awarded for the answers as they would be in the exam. Part of the lesson time was given to going over the questions and recapping on the points that a student would be expected to make. spelling mistakes were corrected above the offending word. I found this so much more useful than the method I had been tortured with at school where I dreaded the teachers red pen.

As an aside I was interested to see in Egyptian tombs that the outlines of the paintings and hyraglyphs were first made in red, then the master craftsman would make any necessary adjustments in black.

I always remember how the first years of school, the first people on the list (alphabetical) used to get better grades and be generally more brilliant..good grades faded away as one would approach Z...

Years after there was one or two surprises but generally it stayed pretty much that way. Anything after J was hopeless ( )) )