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Unicitatea personală – către o perspectivă sociologică
In this paper we review the biases associated with the sense of personal uniqueness: better-than-average effect, illusory superiority, person-positivity bias, leniency error, sense of relative superiority, third-person effect, unrealistic optimism ...
Sergiu Bălțătescu
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Teaching to the test: A very large red herring
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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Lake Wobegon Revisited: On Diversity and Education [PDF]
present the theses that current educational practices underestimate the magnitude of diversity in educational achievement and that disregarding diversity has the effect of widening the range of differences.
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Students' Academic Self Perception [PDF]
Participation rates in higher education differ persistently between some groups in society. Using two British datasets we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students’ misperception of their own and other’s ability, thereby increasing the expected ...
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Educators Cheating on Tests Is Nothing New; Doing Something About It Would Be
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Richard P. Phelps
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: Teacher performance has been the focus of educational policy reforms in recent decades for the professional development of teachers. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of teaching experience and peer teaching skills on basic training
Yufiarti +2 more
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Improving evaluative judgement: Countering the Lake Wobegon effect
Evaluative judgement is the ability to objectively evaluate the quality of one's own work. This is an important metacognitive skill for all students and graduates.
Lim, Kieran Fergus
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Lake Woebegone”, twenty years later
Twenty years ago, John Cannell developed data on test scores that became known as the "Lake Wobegon effect." This commentary describes that experience. Almost twenty years ago, I wrote -and then privately published -the two "Lake Woebegone&
MD John Jacob Cannell
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