Review Blinding on a per scholarship basis

Summary: Client is requesting the ability to "blind" reviews (remove name and any identity distinguishing info) on a scholarship by scholarship basis, instead of global, as it is today.

 

Customer Definition of Business Problem:

As for blinding and rubrics, I certainly understand a rubric is designed to increase impartiality. However, rubrics are not absolute in their ability to achieve this goal. Certain rubrics in certain instances may be able to get close to being completely impartial, but scholarship applications aren't really a good example of that. A rubric and point-based system still leaves room for a certain degree of subjective variation, particularly in ill-defined areas. Such ill-defined areas are often inescapable (or at least not completely escapable) when using a rubric, and that's all good and well, but it is ideal to ensure any variation that might result therefrom (or from the simple act of using a rubric per se) is random and not systematic. Blinding would help accomplish this. Again, I consider myself a very impartial person, and I certainly have no concerns about my committee members, but I still think it's something worth heavily considering. I certainly realize the all-or-none option is presently an impediment to blinding (this was the issue last year as well), but just based on what I know about computers and programming, it doesn't seem impossible or unreasonable to look into making blinding an option on a departmental basis or even scholarship by scholarship. I certainly hope I don't seem like a nuisance, and I also don't mean to belabor the issue, but I do think it would be an area we could improve. Again, though, this is just my two cents (...though at this point, it may feel more like twelve dollars).

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  • Feb 10 2017
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Employee Name Micco Fay
Client Name "shard name" ecu
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  • Guest commented
    July 25, 2017 15:33

    Educational Theatre Association would also like this

  • Deleted User commented
    June 27, 2017 21:56

    CSMD would also like to see this enhancement.

  • Guest commented
    May 17, 2017 15:45

    Western Governor would like to have this too.

  • Deleted User commented
    March 13, 2017 22:07

    foster-washington would like to see this as well

  • Deleted User commented
    March 03, 2017 20:00

    ivc would also like this

  • Deleted User commented
    February 21, 2017 16:37

    This is tentatively planned for the release around the end of the summer.