It improved confidence in their marking abilities, ensured consistency, shared responsibility for failing students, increased awareness of marking style and moderated extreme views.
New markers appeared to be influenced by other markers early on in their marking career, and course convenors should bear this in mind if pairing markers for peer review of marking.
New markers in particular would benefit from further guidance, however they are influenced by others early on in their marking career and course organisers should be mindful of this when arranging double marking.
In particular new markers would benefit from further guidance in their marking, such as examples of feedback and typical assessments that fall into the categories of 'good', 'bad' and 'average'average
As the study was being instigated by the department that employed the interviewees, it could be argued that they were unlikely to mention cutting corners in their marking or indeed any other behaviours that might make them appear sloppy.
Also, paternity was significantly predicted by the difference in the two males' scent marking: we found that multiple paternity was higher when males showed smaller differences in their marking whereas single paternity was higher when the differences in males marking increased (GLMM, z = −2.472, β = −0.373, SE = 0.151, N = 44, P = 0.013, Fig. 3).
However, tobacco companies often offer discounts and promotions, and retailers vary in their mark-ups, so there is substantial variation in cigarette prices.
The following e-mail trail, edited slightly for readability but including some original misspellings, suggests that digital con artists are skilled not only in reeling in their marks, but in knowing when to cut them loose.
