Failing to learn from inspections

A model to learn from mistakes (using TOPSIS)

Learning is a new paradigm that is introduced in today's organizations. The purpose of this study is to determine learning contingency model from the mistakes using TOPSIS. Variables were identified using the Delphi technique. The samples of this study were consisted 30 public administrators in Iran. The results show which factors have the greatest impact and which causes the least impact on le...

Failing to Learn from Experience about Catastrophes: The Case of Hurricane Preparedness

The ability of individuals to learn from experience to invest in protection against catastrophic events is explored. Data are reported from two controlled experiments in which participants have a monetary incentive to learn from experience to make investments to protect against hurricane risks. A central finding is that investments display a short-term forgetting effect consistent with the use ...

Failing to learn and learning to fail: How great organizations learn from failure to improve and innovate in a changing world

I learn from you, you learn from me: How to make iList learn from students

We developed a new model for iList, our system that helps students learn linked list. The model is automatically extracted from past student data, and allows iList to track students’ problem-solving behavior in order to provide targeted feedback. We evaluated the new model both intrinsically and extrinsically. We show that the model can match most student actions after a relatively small sequen...

Using Text Analysis to Target Government Inspections: Evidence from Restaurant Hygiene Inspections and Online Reviews

Restaurant hygiene inspections are often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to dispatch inspectors, which in turn limits the number of inspections that can be performed. We argue that NLP can be used to impr...