Thin Slicing

Thin Slicing (Nalini Ambady, Robert Rosenthal, 1990s) – a term from Psychology referring to the capacity to make rapid (“gut”) decisions based on very narrow window of experience (i.e., “thin slices” of information). For experts, Thin Slicing has been proven to be similarly accurate to decisions made over longer periods and based on much more information. Within education, the term has taken on many and diverse meanings, as the notion has been (mis)applied to activities as diverse as assessment, lesson planning, task design, and team-based examination of student performances.

Please cite this article as:
Davis, B., & Francis, K. (2023). “Thin Slicing” in Discourses on Learning in Education. https://learningdiscourses.com.