One relevant question: is the payment offered in line with the effort
involved in anonymizing & sending the data? If it is disproportionately
large, one would have to assume it was an attempt to influence the
instructor in some other way.
Another: I'm prepared, in the absence of specific legislation saying
otherwise, to accept that the _anonymized_ marks are not the property of
the students. But are they perhaps the property of the university? They
would seem to be a "work made for hire" in a way that (say) a textbok
written on university time is not. Thus it would seem that the
administration's permission would be needed, unless one's contract was
very clear about such matters.
-Robert Dawson
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