former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. The cognitive and affective outcomes for high school students who were taught by … (IEEEP) are examined and compared to those of students in courses taught by a sample of teachers who had not received … attitudes. The results indicate that students taught by trained teachers achieved higher post course scores on standardized …

moves can appear somewhat counter-intuitive, we conducted an experiment to see if people make the predicted strategic move …. The experiment uses a simple bargaining situation. A player can make a strategic move of committing to not seeing what the …

In this paper, I present an empirical model of learning under ambiguity in the context of clinical trials. Patients are … concern with learning the treatment effect of the experimental drug, but face the ambiguity of random group assignment. A two … dimensional Bayesian model of learning is proposed to capture patients�beliefs on the treatment effect and group assignment. These …

Many people pay attention to media reports of the US stock market’s performance. Using a data-based thought experiment …

In this paper we analyze a tax evasion game with taxpayer learning by imitation. If the authority commits to a fixed …

Principles of Economics students at Mississippi State University were provided the opportunity to use computer assisted … instruction (CAI) as a supplemental study activity. Students were free to choose the extent of their computer work. Throughout the …, workbook, class notes, and study groups. The surveys indicated that only a minority of the students actively pursued CAI …

human classification learning (Shepard et al., 1961). This allows us to evaluate the efficacy of CBDT as an account of human … Theory) correctly predicts the empirically observed relative difficulty of problems and speed of learning in human data. (2 … increase their aspiration level during the experiment. (4) Average similarity is rejected in favor of additive similarity. …

Using data from a randomized experiment in rural China, this paper studies the influence of social networks on weather … insurance adoption and the mechanisms through which social networks operate. To quantify network effects, the experiment offers … the information available about peers’ decisions and using randomized default options, the experiment shows that the …