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Returns to teaching repetition : the effect of short-term teaching experience on student outcomes
Cuffe, Harold E.; Feld, Jan; O'Grady, Trevor - 2019
Teachers often deliver the same lesson multiple times in one day. In contrast to year-to-year teaching experience, it is unclear how this teaching repetition affects student outcomes. We examine the effects of teaching repetition in a setting where students are randomly assigned to a university...
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Why are economics students more selfish than the rest?
Bauman, Yoram; Rose, Elaina - 2009
A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social programs by students at the University of Washington....
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How do shocks to non-cognitive skills affect test scores?
Behncke, Stefanie - 2009
This paper investigates the extent to which test performance is affected by shocks to non-cognitive skills. 440 students took a low stakes mathematics test. About half of them were exposed to positive affirmation while being given test instructions, whereas the other half served as controls. The...
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Does teaching load affect faculty size?
Becker, William E.; Greene, William H.; Siegfried, John J. - 2009
Random effects estimates using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 16 years reveal that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...
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Selection into experiments : evidence from a population of students
Schulz, Jonathan F.; Sunde, Uwe; Thiemann, Petra; … - 2019
a university's first-year students. The analysis combines two experiments: a classroom experiment in which we elicited … literature; and a recruitment experiment that varied information provided in a typical e-mail recruitment procedure for lab … participants. In the recruitment experiment, students were randomly assigned to four conditions that highlighted altruistic motives …
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Online teaching, procrastination and students' achievement: evidence from COVID-19 Induced remote learning
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools and universities to transit from traditional class-based teaching to online learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of four cohorts of students enrolled in an Italian University...
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Can grit be taught? : lessons from a nationwide field experiment with middle-school students
Santos, Indhira; Petroska-Beska, Violeta; Carneiro, Pedro; … - 2022
We study whether a particular socio-emotional skill - grit (the ability to sustain effort and interest towards long-term goals) - can be cultivated through a large-scale program, and how this affects student learning. Using a randomized control trial, we evaluate the first nationwide...
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Can the teaching style reduce inequality in the classroom? : evidence from a quasi-experiment
Xu, Lei; Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu - 2024
We investigate the effects of "lecture-based" (LBT) – i.e. individual work and rote learning - versus "discussion-based" (DBT) - i.e. participative and focused on student-centred learning - teaching styles on the test scores and socio-economic inequality of middle-school students randomly...
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Incentives and services for college achievement : evidence from a randomized trial
Angrist, Joshua D. (contributor); Lang, Daniel (contributor) - 2007
on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve academic performance among entering full …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003661544
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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2013
first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …
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