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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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The Case for Minimum Teaching Standards

Armstrong, J. S. - EconWPA - 2005

We all share the desire to improve the learning environment at Wharton and to have students who will be satisfied with this environment. While most of the Wharton Teaching Committee's recommendations are consistent with these aims, I believe that recommendation #1, to 'Establish Minimum...

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Do Congressional Earmarks Increase Research Output at Universities?

Payne, A Abigail - EconWPA - 2001

For twenty years universities have been able to bypass peer-reviewed research competition for federal funding and seek …

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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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Business School Prestige ^V Research versus Teaching

Armstrong, J. S. - EconWPA - 2005

was based on the perceptions of academics, firms, and student candidates). The satisfaction of recent graduates was not … related to a school^Rs prestige (based on the perceptions of academics and business firms). Research productivity of schools …

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Land Inequality and the Origin of Divergence and Overtaking in the Growth Process

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2004

This research develops a unified growth theory that captures the transition from the domination of geographical factors\ in the determination of productivity in early stages of development to the domination of institutional factors in mature stages of development. It identifies a novel channel...

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