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Inside School Research: California's Exit-Exam Policy: A Study in Inequity

  • Just as intriguing, though, is the researchers' explanation for why the effects hit some groups of students harder than others: They chalk it up to "stereotype threat."
  • But, when the research team examined students' previous scores on other state tests, they turned up some evidence that minority students and women had underperformed on particular sections of the state exit exam. Women fared worse than their earlier performance might have predicted, for example, on the math portion. Asian students did worse-than-expected on English-language arts.

Op-Ed Contributor - What’s the Value of a Big Bonus? - NYTimes.com

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions.”

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testing teaching bonus bonuses incentive disincentive

  • What would you expect the results to be? When we posed this question to a group of business students, they said they expected performance to improve with the amount of the reward. But this was not what we found. The people offered medium bonuses performed no better, or worse, than those offered low bonuses. But what was most interesting was that the group offered the biggest bonus did worse than the other two groups across all the tasks.
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