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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 …

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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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Business School Prestige ^V Research versus Teaching

Armstrong, J. S. - EconWPA - 2005

We examined the relationships between the research originating at business schools, students^R satisfaction with the schools, and the published ratings of the school^Rs prestige. Research was positively correlated to prestige (where prestige was based on the perceptions of academics, firms, and...

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The Effects of Congressional Appropriation Committee Membership on the Distribution of Federal Research Funding to Universities

Payne, A Abigail - EconWPA - 2001

alma mater affiliation on the distribution of research funding to research and doctoral universities in the United States …

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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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