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...only reservation I have about participating in studies is that they frequently enlighten me to my ineptness—in a test where I made $38, I did the math incorrectly and gave my partner six dollars more than I should have. The time I got money for negotiating, I would have gotten more if only I have been better at getting my way. The time I listened to an artificial language for a half-hour without being able to understand any of it? My self-esteem took a hit with that...
others? Will I ever read an article about new research coming out of Harvard and realize that I was one of their test subjects...
...which brought together school officials, teachers, and parents—was intended to serve as a preliminary to a three-part forum about the achievement gap and ways to close it in the district. The achievement gap, a nationally-seen disparity in the test scores of white and minority students, has been a problem in the Cambridge Public Schools system. On the 2005-2006 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test, only three percent of African American students scored in the advanced level on the 10th grade English language arts exam, while 30 percent of white students...
...University of Illinois at Chicago’s department of pharmacology. The controversy stemmed from a cheating incident that took place at an exam administered in his Pharmacology 331 course—a boy had apparently prepared a crib sheet and had been caught peeking at it during the test. Soon after, my father met with him in his office, listened to his weepy apologies, and examined his cheat sheet. It quickly became clear that the piece of paper could not have helped the boy in answering any of the questions on the exam—the information there...
Dozens of hopefuls vie for a spot in a 16-candidate competition—and the lucky ones chosen will square off in a trying elimination round that will test their social skills...