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“Teaching To the Test” Family of Fallacies [PDF]
Revista Iberoamericana de Evaluación Educativa, 2017 This article explains the various meanings and ambiguities of the phrase “teaching to the test” (TttT), describes its history and use as a pejorative, and outlines the policy implications of the popular, but fallacious, belief that “high stakes” testing ...
Richard P. Phelps
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Employee recruiting and the Lake Wobegon effect [PDF]
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2003 Abstract Employers, educational institutions, and other organizations are often faced with the problem of selecting the most qualified candidate to fill an available position. To this end, many employers have adopted a tournament-like procedure consisting of an initial phase in which third-party “referees” are used to eliminate unqualified candidates,
John Moran, John Morgan
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The Lake Wobegon Effect: Why Most Patients Are at Below-Average Risk. [PDF]
Ann Intern Med, 2015 Vickers AJ, Kent DM.
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An analysis of the environment and competitive dynamics of management research [PDF]
, 2009 Purpose – The purpose of this paper examines some of the controversies facing business schools in their future evolution and pays particular attention to their competitive positioning as centres of management research.
Alex Wilson, Eric Cornuel, Howard Thomas
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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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Voices in Bioethics, 2014 Patents are negative legal rights that act as stop signs to prevent non-innovators from making, using, or selling inventions without expressed permission from inventors.
Emmanuel Kornyo
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J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich), 2012 Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/90540/1/j.1751-7176.2012.00592.x ...
Stern RH.
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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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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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News Map Gaps: Regional News Coverage in the City [PDF]
, 2002 'Why isn't my town on the map?' (Keillor 1985, p.90) The lament of residents of the mythical Lake Wobegon, when fifty square miles of central Minnesota were mistakenly omitted by government surveyors.
Tannock, Anne
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