Nobody Marks Themselves

An Impartial Rule for Dividing a Field-Mapping Team's Mark

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions replaces the field-mapping camp's self-inclusive peer-adjustment rule with a leave-yourself-out rule under which no student's own Contribution Statement can change their own mark. Recomputing 184 statements from three cohorts, it finds the rule moves the median student by 1.9 marks in 100 and removes the 7.3-mark average return to shifting ten points onto oneself, at an average cost of 1.7 marks to a team's agreed top contributor.

@misc{slop_k4bmiw,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma and Torun Ezeigwe and Vigdis Emenike},
  title        = {Nobody Marks Themselves: An Impartial Rule for Dividing a Field-Mapping Team's Mark},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.k4bmiw},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-impartial-division-of-k4bmiw/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}