{"id":3524,"date":"2010-03-13T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=3524"},"modified":"2010-03-12T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:04:12","slug":"hard-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2010\/03\/13\/hard-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some quotes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/\">Overcoming Bias<\/a> blog from the book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Facts-Dangerous-Half-Truths-Total-Nonsense\/dp\/1591398622\">Hard Facts<\/a>.<\/em> (I&#8217;ve cleaned up some spelling errors.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Merit pay for teachers is an idea that is almost 100 years old and has been subject to much research.\u00c2\u00a0 In one study conducted in 1918, \u00e2\u20ac\u015348 percent of U.S. school districts sampled used compensation systems that they called merit pay.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The evidence shows that merit-pay plans seldom last longer than five years and that merit pay consistently fails to improve student performance.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 [Researchers] also showed that cheating [by teachers] was quite sensitive to the size of the incentives provided for enhancing student scores.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The same problems emerged when merit-pay systems were implemented in the 1980s. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is like policy makers suffer from amnesia.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (pp.22-24) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2010\/03\/hard-facts-teaching.html\">Hard Facts: Teaching<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another good one.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Students who are in school or who have chosen a major for instrumental reasons \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in order to get a better job or to make more money \u00e2\u20ac\u201c are much more likely to cheat than students who have chosen a course of study because of their interest in in the subject matter.\u00c2\u00a0 (p.124) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2010\/03\/hard-facts-incentives.html\">Hard Facts: Incentives<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another book to add to my wishlist, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some quotes from the Overcoming Bias blog from the book Hard Facts. (I&#8217;ve cleaned up some spelling errors.) Merit pay for teachers is an idea that is almost 100 years old and has been subject to much research.\u00c2\u00a0 In one study conducted in 1918, \u00e2\u20ac\u015348 percent of U.S. school districts sampled used compensation systems that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-UQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}