My hope was that more than a few students would see this information and say, "Wow, I've got to take it up a notch." It was hard feedback to ignore, but some still managed. For one course I taught, I'd had students access each other in the same way, but only let them know the quartile in which they ranked. I remember a conversation I had with one student whom others found particularly obnoxious. He was smart, but his healthy sense of himself left him clueless about how he was coming off. He saw the data ranking him in the bottom quartile and remained unfazed. He figured that if he was ranked in the bottom 25%, he must have been at the 24% or 25% level, rather than, say, in the bottom 5%. So in his mind, that meant he was almost in the next higher quartile. So he saw himself as "not so far from 50%," which meant peers thought he was just fine.