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Amathematics supervisor in a large U.S. city got a grant to improve mathematics education. She tested all students and placed those with the lowest achievement scores in a special program. After a year, she retested them and was gratified to see that the students in the special program improved in comparison with the rest of the students.
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Scheaffer, R.L., Watkins, A., Gnanadesikan, M., Witmer, J.A. (1996). The Regression Effect. In: Activity-Based Statistics. Textbooks in mathematical sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3843-8_43
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