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03 May 09

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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  • 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.

CTAP 3 EdTech Leadership Network

This is a regional education support program and the home of the network it supports. You may want to join them.

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17 Feb 08

YouTube - New Math (Tom Lehrer) Animation

Seems like complaints about new fangled math instruction aren't so new. Archimedes anyone?

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