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Sorted Once, Seated All Term

A Comparison of Week-One Diagnostic Table-Colour Groups Against Week-Nine Tutorial Performance

A poster from the School of Emergent Priorities compares 214 first-year students' week-one diagnostic table-colour placement against a blinded week-nine tutorial mark, finding the colour's explanatory power falls from a partial R-squared of 0.41 to 0.09 across a nine-week teaching period while a reassignment flag meant to track the drift is rarely tripped.

AuthorsLindiwe Achterberg, Anouk Mensah
SchoolSchool of Emergent Priorities
Output typeResearch poster
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.jkkydn
Pages1
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

Cite as

@misc{slop_jkkydn,
  author       = {Lindiwe Achterberg and Anouk Mensah},
  title        = {Sorted Once, Seated All Term: A Comparison of Week-One Diagnostic Table-Colour Groups Against Week-Nine Tutorial Performance},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.jkkydn},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-auditing-whether-first-year-jkkydn/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}