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- Now it was time to construct an algorithm that could tease some conclusions from this mass of data.†
p. 26.3 *algorithm = precise instructions specifying how to solve some problem
- Furthermore, the algorithm would seek out a classroom full of students who performed far better than their past scores would have predicted and who then went on to score significantly lower the following year.†
p. 26.8
- Here again are the answer strings from classroom A, now reordered by a computer that has been asked to apply the cheating algorithm and seek out suspicious patterns.†
p. 28.8
- CLASSROOM A (WITH CHEATING ALGORITHM APPLIED)†
p. 29.1
- This is a conservative estimate, since the algorithm was able to identify only the most egregious form of cheating—in which teachers systematically changed students' answers—and not the many subtler ways a teacher might cheat.†
p. 32.4
- In addition to detecting cheaters, the algorithm could also identify the best teachers in the school system.†
p. 33.1
- Rather, he wanted to make sure that the teachers identified by the algorithm as cheaters were truly cheating—and then do something about it.†
p. 33.5
- He only had the resources to retest 120 classrooms, however, so he asked the creators of the cheating algorithm to help choose which classrooms to test.†
p. 34.1
- The classrooms shown by the algorithm to have the best teachers, in which big gains were thought to have been legitimately attained.†
p. 34.5
- The results were as compelling as the cheating algorithm had predicted.†
p. 35.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(algorithm) precise instructions specifying how to solve some problem
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)