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Further Comment on "'Lake Woebegone,' Twenty Years Later"
Nonpartisan Education Review, 2006 no ...
Richard P. Phelps
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“Lake Woebegone,” Twenty Years Later
Nonpartisan Education Review, 2006 Twenty years ago, John Cannell developed data on test scores that became known as the “Lake Woebegone effect.” This commentary describes that experience.
John Jacob Cannell, M.D.
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Teaching to the test: A very large red herring
Nonpartisan Education Review, 2016 Elevating teaching-to-the-test to dogma, from the beginning with the distortion of Dr. Cannell’s findings, has served to divert attention from scandals that should have threatened US educators’ almost complete control of their own evaluation.[10] Had the
Richard P. Phelps
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Leveraging Legal Analytics and Spend Data as a Law Firm Self-Governance Tool [PDF]
, 2019 This paper discusses the advantages that law firms can get by using legal analytics (big data) to analyze how they do their work for their clients (and how their clients can benefit as well).
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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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2015 Menino Survey of Mayors [PDF]
, 2016 The 2015 Menino Survey of Mayors represents the second nationally representative survey of American mayors released by the Boston University Initiatives on Cities. The Survey, based on interviews with 89 sitting mayors conducted in 2015, provides insight
Einstein, Katherine Levine, Glick, David
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Commentary: Lake Wobegon guidelines reach Lake Erie [PDF]
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2023 openaire +2 more sources
Educators Cheating on Tests Is Nothing New; Doing Something About It Would Be
Nonpartisan Education Review, 2011 no ...
Richard P. Phelps
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Comments on "'Lake Woebegone,' Twenty Years Later"
Nonpartisan Education Review, 2006 J. J. Cannell’s article on the so-called “Lake Woebegone” effect for K-12 educational testing systems is mostly an historical account of technical issues and policy considerations that led in part to development of new types of test instruments for K-12 ...
D. J. McRae, Ph.D.
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