There was one year when I was a Flexi Adjunct in a school full of unruly students and unhinged behaviour, the Sec 4 Prelim results were released. A female student showed me her script and did not understand why she got a low mark for an essay.
At that time, social studies was very easy to learn and teach. You just had to be familiar with the textbook and the chapters were not rocket science. The questions were also straightforward and a student could easily score by remembering the "official" answers for the questions. I read the student's answer. It was basically saying what the textbook said.
The marker was the HOD and she had not written any comments so we couldn't figure out why she gave the mark. I passed the script to my colleague who also couldn't figure out why the mark was so low when what the student had written answered the question and was textbook based.
So I told the student, "You can go and ask __________________." (HOD's name) because she marked it." The student really went to ask.
Later, I found out that HOD was not pleased. She said it was unprofessional for us to tell the student who marked the script.
She was speaking from an administrative perspective because you don't want masses of students to go and harass markers.
But from an educator's perspective, don't you want the child to learn and improve?
If you have given the student this mark, shouldn't you have to justify it? How to justify when you hide behind a wall of opacity?