Assessing the Impact of Planned Social Change.

Campbell, D. T. (1976). Assessing the Impact of Planned Social Change.

Type

Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

1976

Link

https://jmde.com/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/297/

Cited from

computer_science

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Side Effect
  • A school system optimizing a declared test-score metric hits the prime's Goodhart pattern: the declared effect (scores) improves while the shared substrate (genuine learning, teacher trust) deteriorates — teaching-to-the-test — and the corrective the prime prescribes is to instrument the substrate (broader assessments) rather than the declared metric alone.

    This sourceStatement of Campbell's Law — that a quantitative indicator used for decision-making becomes corrupted and distorts the social process it monitors, as in teaching-to-the-test.

Mechanisms

• Acceptance Criteria
  • Its failure mode is that a deliverable can pass every criterion and still be bad, because the criteria measure the measurable and quietly stand in for the quality you actually cared about

    This sourceWarns that decision-linked quantitative indicators face corruption pressure and can distort the processes they are intended to monitor.

• Selection Loop Map
  • Its most valuable single output is usually the unintended loop: the metric that turns out to be breeding gaming

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