For 2: I made a specific distinction between non-anonymous for CONTENT and anonymous (but reversible if found to be abusive, but a neutral party) for VIOLATIONS (i.e., the lecturer said racist stuff).
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Obvi, my experiences and not universal and teaching/TAing 6 courses a year for 4 years at BBK is again not a universal experience, but I genuinely do not believe there is such a thing as anonymous when it's students you spend hours with. You just know who writes what if you care.
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And even if you don't know who writes what, the way people write can give things away about their personality or minority (or otherwise) status. Anonymity in these contexts to me at least seems like a fig leaf. You cannot really appeal to it.
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To truly protect students you must actually have proper rules and training in place not just say "oh hey it's anonymised so it's unbiased".
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That is absolutely true! Besides, they are bloody adults so perhaps we should not be that much concerned with anonymity but the fairness.
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that might be the result of treating students as defenceless kids. More seriously we (my generation, not yours) have infantilised society.
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Many complex reasons for this. Newton was teaching Physics at Cambridge when he was 16 and wasn't THAT unusual. People live longer now.
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True again but the future (living longer) cannot affect the past (being an eternal teen) ;)
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Well, it depends on the size of the class. It you have over a hundred then it is not that easy. But again I get the idea.
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But the marking is done in parallel by the TAs who only teach small subsets. If the lecturer themselves doesn't do the marking then why does it matter if it's anonymous or not?
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Sorry mean to say "does do". Because in that case they won't know who is who anyway.
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But I do agree in that they (we all) must be made accountable, no doubt.