Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Juneteenth Is But One of the United States’ 20 Emancipation Days
Between the 1780s and 1930s, more than 80 emancipations from slavery occurred, from Pennsylvania in 1780 to Sierra Leone in 1936.
Unskilled But Aware: Rethinking The Dunning-Kruger Effect
As a math professor who teaches students to use data to make informed decisions, I am familiar with common mistakes people make when dealing with numbers. The Dunning-Kruger effect is the idea that the least skilled people overestimate their abilities more than anyone else. This sounds convincing on the surface and makes for excellent comedy. But in a recent paper, my colleagues and I suggest that the mathematical approach used to show this effect may be incorrect.
William E. Spriggs, 1955-2023: Economist And Racial Justice Advocate
Economist William E. Spriggs, an educator, racial justice advocate and public sector leader whose work saw him operate at the highest levels of American policymaking, died June 6.
Partnering for Impact: Collaborative Design and Co-Creation
The motivation to pursue the research reported in this article is part of my longstanding commitment as a scholar to advance ideas that make a difference by changing the conversation, inviting us to cast a reflexive gaze towards ourselves, our actions and the purpose and meaning of what who we are and what we do.
What Constitutes Gender Bias In Academia?
Researchers regularly observe gender differences in favor of men in various parts of academia, such as fewer women in senior academic positions, fewer publications, lower citations rates and lower funding of women. However, researchers also observe differences in favor of women, such as more women being elected in NAS, more favorable peer review and higher funding rates of women.
How Frontline Instructors Can Cultivate Effective Student Teams
This study investigates how frontline instructors cultivate student team effectiveness and uncovers some of their tacit theories about student teams.
Five Ways Altmetrics Are Useful For Academics
Here are five ways I have found Altmetrics to be useful beyond a simple numerical score and just telling us which journal papers are receiving attention.
Pandemic London – and the Future of Publishing?
Robert Dingwall discusses the book Breakable, which details the experiences of Sue Julians and her family in lockdown London
