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How Teacher Evaluations Broke the University
At the close of the fall semester, professors across the country will grade their students. Based on recent trends, those grades will be higher than ever. Around the same time, students will hand grades right
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The Perverse Consequences of the Easy A
… At the same time, professors were coming under more pressure to tend to their students’ emotional well-being, Amanda Claybaugh, Harvard’s dean of undergraduate education, told me. They received near-constant reminders that Harvard was admitting
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Ratings Rise Over Time Because They Feel Easier to Make
People new to a ratings task are more critical than those who have been doing the evaluation task for longer period of time, a new study suggests.
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The National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) Seeks Quality of Research Reviewers
The National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) is recruiting candidates to become certified reviewers tasked with rating the methodological quality and effectiveness of program evaluations. Funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
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At What Age Does Hard Work Add a Shine to Lousy Prizes?
Putting in a lot of effort to earn a reward can make unappealing prizes more attractive to kindergartners, but not to preschoolers, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for
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How to Go From Evaluation to Inspiration
TIME: We live in a culture saturated with evaluation. In school, we learn to take tests. We take the tests, and depending on the outcome, either feel really smart or really stupid. We then prepare
