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A quiet week in Lake Wobegon? [editorial]
, 2016 As the English summer finally decided to arrive and the cold damp days become distant memories, the ‘Editorial Office’ relocated to its temporary summer seaside annex. The new base is a peculiarly English large static caravan in a small East Yorkshire town called Hornsea.
Malcolm Golightley, Margaret Holloway
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The Source of Lake Wobegon [updated]
Nonpartisan Education Review, 2010 John J. Cannell's late 1980's "Lake Wobegon" reports suggested widespread deliberateeducator manipulation of norm-referenced standardized test (NRT) administrations and results,resulting in artificial test score gains.
Richard P. Phelps
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The Source of Lake Wobegon (slide show)
Nonpartisan Education Review, 2007 John J. Cannell's late 1980's "Lake Wobegon" reports suggested widespread deliberate educator manipulation of norm-referenced standardized test (NRT) administrations and results, resulting in artificial test score gains.
Richard P. Phelps
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A New Look at Lake Wobegon: Who’s in Your Canoe?
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018 We re-examine the Lake Wobegon effect for reported GPA using data from students enrolled in principles of economics courses. Students are well known to over-report their GPA on surveys. In addition to standard measures of the mean difference, we extend the analysis to understand the distribution of response error using quantile regression analysis. We
Chris Bollinger +3 more
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Are You Above Average? The Lake Wobegon Effect [PDF]
, 2022 If there were children living on Old Kernersville Lake I’m sure they would be described as “above average,” just like those in Garrison Keillor\u27s fictional Lake Wobegon, “where all the women are strong and all the men are good-looking.
Reid, Raymond
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The Source of Lake Wobegon [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 John J. Cannell's late 1980's “Lake Wobegon” reports suggested widespread deliberate educator manipulation of norm-referenced standardized test (NRT) administrations and results, resulting in artificial test score gains. The Cannell studies have been referenced in education research since, but as evidence that high stakes (and not cheating or lax ...
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Generation Alpha in the Digital Age. Anthropological Shifts and a Contextual Pastoral Response
Warszawskie Studia TeologiczneThe article offers a theological interpretation of the anthropological and spiritual challenges associated with Generation Alpha, a cohort formed in a fully digitized, technologically saturated environment.
Michał Wilkosz, Patryk Piotr Zając
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In the Eye of the Beholder: How Lawyers Perceive Legal Ethical Problems
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Volume 22, Issue 3, Page 345-360, September 2025.ABSTRACT In our interdependent and complex world, lawyers play an increasingly important role. The legal profession depends on lawyers' commitment to the rules of professional conduct governing how they interact with clients, courts, third parties, and one another.
Albert Yoon
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, 2016 17” x 22” unfoldedBrochure about the Clear Lake community including area information, pictures, and a ...
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Editorial: A Quiet Week in Lake Wobegon? [PDF]
British Journal of Social Work, 2016 As the English summer finally decided to arrive and the cold damp days become distant memories, the ‘Editorial Office’ relocated to its temporary summer seaside annex. The new base is a peculiarly English large static caravan in a small East Yorkshire town called Hornsea.
Malcom Golightley, Margaret Holloway
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