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Tutoring in (online) higher education : experimental evidence
Hardt, David; Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes - 2022
due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small groups, in alternating weeks with and without a more senior … student tutor. The treatment improved study behavior and increased contact to other students. Tutored students achieved around …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012813853
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Nobel students beget nobel professors
Tol, Richard S. J. - 2022
the effect of proximity to previous Nobelists on winning the Nobel Prize. Conditional on being Nobel-worthy, students and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013288011
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Can moral reminders curb corruption? : evidence from an online classroom experiment
Claus, Corinna; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Krieger, Tim - 2022
any empirical support that male participants are more corrupt in comparison to female participants. Students majoring in … economics or business/management show more corrupt behavior than students studying to become economics school teachers, but the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171083
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Small group instruction to improve student performance in mathematics in early grades : results from a randomized field experiment
Bonesrønning, Hans; Finseraas, Henning; Hardoy, Inés; … - 2021
years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694062
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Students are almost as effective as professors in university teaching
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2019
paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039001
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Early detection of students at risk : predicting student dropouts using administrative student data and machine learning methods
Berens, Johannes; Schneider, Kerstin; Görtz, Simon; … - 2018
are and which students are at risk of dropping out. We develop an early detection system (EDS) using administrative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906290
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Are professors worth it? : the value-added and costs of tutorial instructors
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018
where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936343
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Technology and education : computers, software, and the internet
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
use in schools, and ii) home use by students. Theoretically, ICT investment and CAI use by schools and the use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374202
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Computers and student learning : bivariate and multivariate evidence on the availability and use of computers at home and at school
Fuchs, Thomas (contributor); Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2004
We estimate the relationship between students ̕educational achievement and the availability and use of computers at … computers. Thus, the mere availability of computers at home seems to distract students from effective learning. But measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002520865
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The association of opening K-12 schools and colleges with the spread of Covid-19 in the United States : county-level panel data analysis
Chernozhukov, Victor; Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Schrimpf, Paul - 2021
This paper empirically examines how the opening of K-12 schools and colleges is associated with the spread of COVID-19 using county-level panel data in the United States. Using data on foot traffic and K-12 school opening plans, we analyze how an increase in visits to schools and opening schools...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485361