University of Messina accused of violating anonymity policy in exams
ROME - Tensions are rising at the University of Messina as the anonymity policy for their examinations may have have been violated last July.
Paolo Todaro, member of the Academic Senate, has questioned authorities at the university after it was discovered that the results document from an exam had grades published without names but in alphabetical order.
Of course, this format necessitates the names of candidates being known, and thus calls into question not only the supposed anonymity policy of the exam in question, but also that of any preceeding assessments.
Whilst Todaro is pushing for complete transparency from the university authorities, Giovanna Spatari, Rector, has confidently denied allegations of examiners knowing the authors of the papers they grade. She blames the system Cineca, which is used to conduct and process the university's internal and external exams. An anomaly supposedly caused the generation of results in alphabetical order, but before this point, she assures Todaro, 'nobody could have been aware of this circumstance'.
But many are still unsatisfied by this response, demanding an investigation into the marking and processing of all examinations over the last few years. If this incident was not an anomaly, the university will be facing a loss of trust that could prove detrimental to their institution.
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