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Hall, Amy Cox – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2019
In this practice paper I examine the evaluation of one project and ask whether or not the evaluation failed. I suggest that because I was unaware of the larger connections between the grant agency and the grantee I made tactical errors in the presentation of findings, which resulted in not simply disagreement but anger and resentment. I conclude…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Error Patterns, Psychological Patterns, Evaluators
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Schwarzmueller, April – Teaching of Psychology, 2011
This article details a multi-modal active learning experience to help students understand elements of social categorization. Each student in a group dynamics course observed two groups in conflict and identified examples of in-group bias, double-standard thinking, out-group homogeneity bias, law of small numbers, group attribution error, ultimate…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Active Learning, Group Dynamics, Classification
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Haddad, Jeffrey M.; Kloos, Heidi; Keen, Rachel – Developmental Science, 2008
Three-year-olds were given a search task with conflicting cues about the target's location. A ball rolled behind a transparent screen and stopped behind one of four opaque doors mounted into the screen. A wall that protruded above one door provided a visible cue of blockage in the ball's path, while the transparent screen allowed visual tracking…
Descriptors: Cues, Eye Movements, Conflict, Error Patterns