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The Friday Funny: Things Not To Say at a Job Interview
Personnel evaluation is always a rich source of evaluation humor – and often with interesting parallel implications for program, policy and project evaluation. Here’s a classic that’s done the rounds on the Internet; we found this one at Pinetree.com’s inbox … Continue reading
Cool ideas from personnel evaluation: Evaluative rubrics
Well, this week is Evaluation Week at SIOP (the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology) and SIOP week on the AEA365 blog. So, it’s a good time to consider some of the synergies across the two disciplines. My doctoral training … Continue reading
Posted in Evaluative rubrics, Personnel evaluation
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The Friday Funny: Performance evaluation translations
Performance appraisals, like many program and policy evaluations, often contain ‘coded’ language to diplomatically convey evaluative feedback. It’s always helpful to have a translation guide for those not used to reading (or writing) such ‘code’ … and to ponder the more serious question of whether the ‘code’ might actually be so obscure that evaluation readers/users won’t actually get the subtleties (and may even infer the opposite from the truth) … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Funnies, Personnel evaluation
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Oxford admissions essay: “simple, yet devilish” … An evaluation aptitude test?
Many thanks to Michael Quinn Patton for sending us through this gem (from the New York Times) about a rather interesting essay exam for selecting graduate students into All Souls College in Oxford, England. Continue reading
Posted in Education, Personnel evaluation
Tagged Personnel evaluation, predictive validity, student assessment, UK
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