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The Secret of Building Successful Teams
Successful organizations depend on successful teamwork, and according to Arizona State University psychological scientist Nancy J. Cooke what you think you know about teamwork is probably wrong; creating a high-performing team is about much more than simply trying to recruit the best and the brightest (which research shows can backfire anyway). For tasks that require a high degree of cognitive complexity, from brain surgery to manufacturing a car, it is impossible for any single individual to completely understand all of the components necessary for the task.
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Questionnaire sur la prévention du plagiat CORRIGÉ
Présentation suggérée du questionnaire : J'ai créé cette banque de questions afin d’évaluer la compréhension par les étudiants du tutoriel sur la prévention du plagiat. Le questionnaire est configuré à l’intérieur du système de gestion de cours en ligne. Le format en ligne permet au professeur une certaine souplesse. Par exemple, une option serait de présenter un questionnaire comprenant 10 questions qui reprend, au hasard, deux questions (une question vrai ou faux et une question à choix multiples) provenant de chacune des cinq sections du tutoriel. Je permets aux étudiants de reprendre le questionnaire autant de fois qu'ils le désirent jusqu'à ce qu’ils le maîtrisent.
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5 Ways to Maintain Your Vacation Happiness
U.S. News & World Report: After returning from a great trip – be it a quick coastal getaway or a more far-flung retreat – it's easy to reminisce about our most remarkable travel moments. Whether you're daydreaming about the fun you had sinking your toes in the sand, gliding down a snow-covered mountain or stumbling upon a beloved local bistro or treasured cultural site, positive memories tend to leave a lingering impression long after your journey. But while all breaks must come to an end, the blissful feelings triggered don't have to disappear as soon as you revert to your normal routine.
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Stop fussing over measles vaccination rates. Start worrying about flu shots.
The Washington Post: You probably heard about the Disneyland measles outbreak last year. One infected person is thought to have visited the theme park, and thanks in part to low immunization rates, 142 people in California and six other states got sick. It wasn’t close to the worst recent measles outbreak in the United States, but because of its origin in the shadow of Cinderella’s castle, it produced a crescendo of media and public concern about the larger problem of childhood vaccination rates, which have dipped slightly in some states.
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Reproducibility Project Named Among Top Scientific Achievements of 2015
The journal Science has named a major attempt to replicate 100 papers published in top-tier psychology journals as one of the “breakthroughs of the year” for 2015. This collaborative project, facilitated by the Center for Open Science and APS Fellow Brian Nosek, has been recognized as a major scientific achievement by psychology but also by science as a whole. The results were sobering for the field -- less than half of results replicated -- but they also provided a valuable estimate of the replicability of psychology papers and are motivating new attempts to improve reproducibility. Science published the results of the project in August 2015.
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New Year’s Day And Mondays Are The Best Times For Setting Goals, Says Science
Yahoo: Landmarks in the calendar such as New Year’s Day, and even standard Mondays, are the best times to set new goals, according to new research. Time-based landmarks are more likely to encourage people to set goals when they make them think of new beginnings, so days that are deemed to be the ‘start’ of something, whether it’s a year, a month or simply a week, are ideal, says the study. A new paper published in Psychological Science suggests that people favour the ‘fresh start effect’ associated with landmark days because it enables them to psychologically disassociate themselves from their past, imperfect self. Read the whole story: Yahoo
