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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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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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Investing in entrepreneurs: The case of franchising
Managerial and Decision Economics, Volume 43, Issue 8, Page 3785-3794, December 2022., 2022 Whether meant to improve public policy, private lending, or personal choices by individuals, investing in successful entrepreneurs is essential. Successful entrepreneurs typically have high human capital. Investment in entrepreneurs who have lower human capital involves more risk. Research has shown that one type of entrepreneur, franchisees, typically
Steven C. Michael
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, 2023 The Lake Wobegon effect, named for the fictional town where all children are above average, is well documented in surveys about education. Respondents tend to rate their local public schools higher in quality than schools overall in the state or nation ...
Fairman, Peter, Vercellotti, Timothy
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Are You Above Average? The Lake Wobegon Effect
, 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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Nationally Normed Elementary Achievement Testing in America's Public Schools: How All Fifty States are Above the National AverageNationally Normed Elementary Achievement Testing in America's Public Schools: How All Fifty States are Above the National Average [PDF]
Nonpartisan Education Review, 2017 no ...
John J. Cannell
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A New Look at Lake Wobegon: Who’s in Your Canoe?
, 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.
Linda English +3 more
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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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CEO pay and the Lake Wobegon effect [PDF]
, 2007 working paperIn this paper, we propose a new explanation for the recent increase in CEO pay at US firms. Our explanation, which is based on asymmetric information in financial markets, is motivated by a recent observation made by former DuPont CEO Edward
Schaefer, Scott; Hayes, Rachel
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Does Your Dog Really Have a Better Life Than Other Dogs?
, 2022 In a recent study, subjects rated the welfare of dogs, ranging from street dogs and fighting dogs to show dogs and personal pets. Nearly everyone thought their dog had a better life than other types of dogs—including other peoples\u27 pets.
Herzog, Harold
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