Skill map for active listening Micro-VCoLing, the learning process my colleagues and I teach in ViP, involves practicing tiny skills in realtime. We call these skills micro-skills. Micro-VCoLing has many benefits, and you can find several examples of micro-VCoLs here on Medium and on Lectica’s website. Once people have learned how to micro-VCoL, they can […]
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https://lecticalive.org/about/survey-facemasks Your voice is important! We’d love to know how you’re thinking and feeling about the facemask issue! Please take 5-10 minutes to respond to our short survey…
In the 5 days since I announced our facemask survey in the original Facemask Question article, almost 200 people have responded. Three-quarters of them have provided thoughtful written responses. Many of these responses highlight the hidden complexity of facemask decisions. I’m writing today to share a few of them with you. If you haven’t already completed
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You point to a problem that is ubiquitous in survey research. In an ideal world, an item would mean exactly the same thing to every person who responds to it. But this just isn’t possible. People think and understand differently. Contexts vary. Psychometric tools allow us to examine item functioning once we have enough data. We
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Are you curious about how people decide whether or not to wear face masks? I am wicked curious! That’s why I created the “About Those Facemasks” survey. If you have 5-10 minutes to spare, your participation would be much appreciated. What seems, on the face of it 😊 to be a simple binary choice — to wear
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Vagueness is a survey hazard! I love the “pod” idea. I hope it goes viral.
Vagueness is a survey hazard! I love the “pod” idea. I hope it goes viral. Read More »
Should we or shouldn’t we? Where and when should we? When is it safe not to? Go directly to the About Those Facemasks Survey. For the last few weeks, as COVID cases have been dropping in Massachusetts, my daughter, Jess, and I have engaged in a discussion that goes something like this: Me: So what’s happening with
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For 50 years we’ve known that the best predictor of recruitment success is mental ability. In fact, according to the most recent meta-analysis of research on the predictive power of recruitment assessments, mental ability, on it’s own, predicts 42%–45% of the variance in workplace performance (Schmidt, Oh, & Schaffer, 2016). The following graph shows the
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Right after my dissertation was accepted, one of my professors, the delightful and brilliant psychometrician, Paul Holland, invited me to lunch to “discuss something important.” Later that day, intrigued—and a little nervous—I picked at an avocado salad while we chatted about recent events in the Graduate School of Education. It wasn’t until he had asked
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Forgiveness provides a wide range of benefits for mental health, physical health, and relationships. Small, private acts of forgiveness can even help us limit the impact of severe stress on our thoughts, feelings, and behavior. If you’re noticing an increasing sense of dissatisfaction, disappointment, or frustration in your interactions with others, you may find this
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