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SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF COMBRAINS
DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005
of the Combrain will be to identify,plan&derive implementation methods for Basic Needs;Domestic Investment,Savings,Technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118844
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Uncovering Gender Differences in the Effects of Early Intervention: A Reevaluation of the Abecedarian, Perry Preschool, and Early Training Projects
Anderson, Michael - EconWPA - 2005
The view that the returns to public educational investments are highest for early childhood interventions stems primarily from several influential randomized trials - Abecedarian, Perry, and the Early Training Project - that point to super-normal returns to preschool interventions. This paper...
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Teacher vs. Learner Responsibility in Management Education
Armstrong, J. S. - EconWPA - 2005
A literature review suggested that behavioral changes occur more rapidly when the learner assumed responsibility. Natural learning, an approach to help learners assume responsibility, was compared with the traditional strategy in seven field experiments. It produced more than twice as many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556524
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The Devil<92>s Advocate Responds to an MBA Student<92>s Claim that Research Harms Learning
Armstrong, J. S. - EconWPA - 2005
Snapshots from Hell describes a first-year student<92>s experience in the Stanford Master of Business Administration (MBA) program in 1989. Peter Robinson, formerly a speech writer for President Reagan, tells about his experiences in applying to business schools, living with other MBA students,...</92>
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Improving Learning at Universities: Who is Responsible?
Armstrong, J.S. - EconWPA - 2005
Recently, I published a letter in the Wall Street Journal (Armstrong 2004a) with the basic message that business school education has been losing effectiveness. Most important, students are not learning to do things, such as making an effective oral presentation, writing a persuasive management...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556554
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Are Student Ratings of Instruction Useful?
Armstrong, J.S. - EconWPA - 2005
Despite the lead article^Rs title ^SValidity Concerns and Usefulness of Student Ratings of Instruction^T (Greenwald 1997) in the American Psychologist^R^Rs special section on teacher ratings, the papers did not provide direct evidence on ^Susefulness.^T There is no evidence that the use of...
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The Impact of State Governance Structures on Higher Education Resources and Research Activity
Knott, Jack H.; Payne, A Abigail - EconWPA - 2001
Universities in the United States reside in regions that have different political cultures and economic conditions … performance, the role of state governance of public universities also is an important factor. Over the past two decades state … governments have given considerable attention to state governance issues, resulting in many universities operating in a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556912
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University Resourcing: Australia in an International Context
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003
In June 2002, the Commission was asked to undertake international comparisons of the resourcing of higher education institutions and the management of those resources. The objective of the study was to collect information for Australia and other countries on university income by source, their...
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Would Mandatory Attendance Be Effective for Economics Classes?
Armstrong, J. S. - EconWPA - 2005
Romer (1993) suggests that universities should undertake experiments that would test the value of mandatory attendance …
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Learner Responsibility in Management Education, or Ventures into Forbidden Research (with Comments)
Armstrong, J. S. - EconWPA - 2005
Formal education can be improved by transferring responsibility from the teacher to the learner. A simple approach to this is the time contract. Time contracts have been used successfully in nine quasi-experiments but, despite these successes, some educators see this as subversive research.
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