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Using high-stakes grades to incentivize learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
I use a natural experiment in Norwegian high school to investigate how high-stakes grades affect students’ investment in schooling. By exploiting variation across space and time I compare the performance of students taking the same exit exam in ...
Fidjeland, Andreas, Andreas Fidjeland
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Dewey, Bruner, and Seas of Stories in the High Stakes Testing Debate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper proposes that many of the questions surrounding high stakes testing being debated today are important, yet fall short of moving teachers, parents, students, administrators and legislators to think deeply about how optimal teaching and learning
Wilcox, Kristen Campbell
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Oversight of biohacking when the stakes are high

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2020
I. Introduction  A gap exists in the scholarly field of research ethics in which the conduct of biohackers (often in their garages) is dismissed as a non-scientific phenomenon[i].
Camille Castelyn
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¿Qué dice la investigación social sobre las pruebas educativas externas?

open access: yesRevista Internacional de Sociología, 2017
Las pruebas externas estandarizadas (high-stakes tests, en la jerga anglosajona), que han de ser aprobadas para obtener una credencial de Educación Secundaria, han dado lugar a amplios debates en los países en que se han implantado.
Rafael Feito Alonso
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High stakes on the high seas [PDF]

open access: yesScience Advances, 2018
Jennifer Jacquet Jeremy B. C. Jackson Today, “the high seas” are generally understood to refer to the vast expanses of open oceans that are not under the formal jurisdiction of any nation. Legally, the high seas are defined as the 60% expanse of the oceans that lie beyond national exclusive economic zones, which are within 200 nautical miles ...
Jacquet, Jennifer, Jackson, Jeremy B. C.
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Adversarial Training for High-Stakes Reliability

open access: yesAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35, 2022
In the future, powerful AI systems may be deployed in high-stakes settings, where a single failure could be catastrophic. One technique for improving AI safety in high-stakes settings is adversarial training, which uses an adversary to generate examples to train on in order to achieve better worst-case performance. In this work, we used a safe language
Daniel M. Ziegler   +11 more
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Preservice teachers’ beliefs about high-stakes testing and their working environments

open access: yesEducation Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
In this exploratory mixed methods survey study, we assess preservice teachers’ (n=379) experiences with and beliefs about their high-stakes testing experiences and analyze how they relate to their beliefs about the role and efficacy of high-stakes ...
Sharon L. Nichols, Shon Brewington
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High Stakes in the Bazaar

open access: yesCritical Gambling Studies
This article examines cryptocurrency trading in Turkey, focusing on the ‘gamblification’ of this emerging market. Based on 18 months of ethnographic research (2021-2022) conducted during an economic crisis exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ...
Wesam Adel Hassan
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High-stakes testing of students with disabilities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Plan BThe proposed study consists of a literature review on the topic of high-stakes testing and the implications of those tests on students with disabilities.
Teed, Kristi Marie
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