Study finds lower grades given to students with surnames later in alphabetical order

A new study shows that a student receiving a good or bad grade isn’t solely based on their academic performance but judged on their last name. Students with last names near the end of the alphabet received lower grades, while those whose names started with a letter at the beginning of the list received a higher grade. Researchers at the University of Michigan discovered that students with surnames starting with A, B, C, D, or E received a 0.3-point higher grade out of 100 possible points.

Canvas is a widely used online learning management system tool with a default setting that lists students by their last names alphabetically.RELATED: History, civics scores for US students declined amid pandemic"We spend a lot of time thinking about how to make the grading fair and accurate but even for me it was really surprising," Jun Li, an associate professor of technology and operations at U-M’s Ross School of Business, said in a statement in the report.

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