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This paper examines learning outcomes in a one-semester introductory microeconomics course where contact time with the instructor was reduced by two-thirds and students were expected to view pre-recorded lectures on-line and come to class prepared to engage in discussion. Students were pre-and...
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This classroom experiment introduces students to the notion of credit risk by allowing them to trade on comparable corporate bond issues from two types of markets - investment-grade and high-yield. Investment-grade issues have a lower probability of default than high-yield issues, and thus...
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Suppose you are interested in the level of a state variable (e.g. a disease is present or absent or of a pre-specified level of severity, or a failure is recorded or not, etc.) and have a potentially useful but imperfect diagnostic test method, (e.g. a blood test result for this disease, or a...
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delivery and assessment. Course instructors still need to assign grades despite not having the full set of planned assessments …
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This study investigates how first year Principles of Economics courses assessment items predict achievement in post … principles economics courses. Of particular interest is how achievement in different assessment forms (assignments, multiple … choice questions, and constructed response questions) predicts future performance. I use assessment data compiled from …
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Advocates of Constructed Response (CR) questions argue that CR questions provide a different assessment of student … assessment is substantial, then it follows that grade outcomes using CR questions should be different from those using MC … questions. We investigate this using a large dataset composed of individual assessment results from thousands of students in …
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assessment results from Introductory Macro- and Microeconomics classes at a large, public university. We find that (i) CR scores …
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grade for students. This paper attempts to establish how different online assessment conditions affect final grade …
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This study investigates whether question format disadvantages certain types of students. I use assessment data compiled …
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