The National Honor Society Panel at

AbstractMany medical schools have reconsidered or eliminated clerkship grades and honor society memberships. National testing organizations announced plans to eliminate numerical scoring for the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 in favor of pass/fail results. These changes have led some faculty to wonder: “How will we recognize and reward excellence?” Excellence in undergraduate medical education has long been defined by high grades, top test scores, honor society memberships, and publication records. However, this model of learner excellence is misaligned with how students learn or what society values. This accolade-driven view of excellence is perpetuated by assessments that are based on gestalt impressions influenced by similarity between evaluators and students, and assessments that are often restricted to a limited number of traditional skill domains. To achieve a new model of learner excellence that values the trainee’s achievement, growth, and responsiveness to feedback across multiple domains, we must envision a new model of teacher excellence. Such teachers would have a growth mindset toward assessing competencies and learning new competencies. Actualizing true learner excellence will require teachers to change from evaluators who conduct assessments of learning to coaches who do assessment for learning. Schools will also need to establish policies and structures that foster a culture that supports this change. In this new paradigm, a teacher’s core duty is to develop talent rather than sort it.

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Learning through Peer Reviewing and Publishing in the Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics: Twenty Years Later

Political Science and Politics ◽

10.1017/s1049096520001742 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 346-352

Author(s):

Christina P. Walker ◽

Terri L. Towner ◽

Rosalee A. Clawson ◽

Zoe M. Oxley ◽

Christine L. Nemacheck ◽

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Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Research ◽

College Classroom ◽

Board Members ◽

Peer Reviewing ◽

Purdue University ◽

Upper Level ◽

Honor Society

ABSTRACTThe Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics (PSAJ), sponsored by the Pi Sigma Alpha National Honor Society, was founded in 2001 at Purdue University. After 20 years, much has changed in undergraduate research and publishing, but the benefits of producing a peer-reviewed journal remain the same. Undergraduate research has increased in prominence, and the journal has modernized to meet these transformations. This article describes the history, purpose, and operations of the PSAJ. Most important, a survey of former Editorial Board members, Pi Sigma Alpha Faculty Chapter Advisors, and published authors in the journal reveal attitudes toward operating an undergraduate journal, using undergraduate research in the college classroom, and publishing in a peer-reviewed journal, respectively. We conclude with calls to continue to encourage undergraduate research and to assign published undergraduate research in upper-level courses.

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The ODE Graduate Research Award Competition Competition Sponsored by Omicron Delta Epsilon International Honor Society in Economics

The American Economist ◽

10.1177/05694345211039356 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 66 (2) ◽

pp. 350-350

Keyword(s):

Graduate Research ◽

Honor Society

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Selling an Honor Society

Journal of Education ◽

10.1177/002205742710600409 ◽

1927 ◽

Vol 106 (4) ◽

pp. 86-87

Author(s):

R. R. Dodge

Keyword(s):

Honor Society

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Creating a virtual nursing honor society: Key technology design considerations

Journal of Nursing Education and Practice ◽

10.5430/jnep.v5n2p131 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Emily E. Hopkins ◽

Debra M. Wolf ◽

Julie D. Slade ◽

Kathleen C. Spadaro ◽

Diane F. Hunker ◽

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Keyword(s):

Technology Design ◽

Key Technology ◽

Design Considerations ◽

Honor Society

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An unintentional, robust, and replicable pro-Black bias in social judgment

10.31234/osf.io/u7dgk ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Jordan Axt ◽

Charles R. Ebersole ◽

Brian A. Nosek

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Social Behavior ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Social Groups ◽

Social Judgment ◽

Social Commentary ◽

Acceptance Criterion ◽

Implicit And Explicit ◽

Academic Decision Making ◽

Honor Society

Empirical evidence and social commentary demonstrate favoring of Whites over Blacks in attitudes, social judgment, and social behavior. In 6 studies (N > 4,000), we provide evidence for a pro-Black bias in academic decision-making. When making multiple admissions decisions for an academic honor society, participants from undergraduate and online samples had a more relaxed acceptance criterion for Black than White candidates, even though participants possessed implicit and explicit preferences for Whites over Blacks. This pro-Black criterion bias persisted among subsamples that wanted to be unbiased and believed they were unbiased. It also persisted even when participants were given warning of the bias or incentives to perform accurately. These results suggest opportunity for theoretical and empirical innovation on the conditions under which biases in social judgment favor and disfavor different social groups, and how those biases manifest outside of awareness or control.

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