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Learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: it is not who you teach, but how you teach
Orlov, George; McKee, Douglas; Berry, James; Boyle, Austin - 2020
the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining seven economics courses taught at four US R1 institutions, we find that students …
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"Teaching to teach" literacy
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - 2016
Significant numbers of people have very low levels of literacy in many OECD countries and, because of this, face significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching strategies are most useful for actually rectifying literacy deficiencies. The subject remains...
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Zooming to class?: experimental evidence on college students' online learning during COVID-19
Kofoed, Michael S.; Gebhart, Lucas; Gilmore, Dallas; … - 2021
2020, we randomized 551 West Point students in a required Introductory Economics course across twelve instructors to either … an online or in-person class. Final grades for online students dropped by 0.215 standard deviations; a result apparent in … both assignments and exams and largest for academically at-risk students. A post-course survey finds that online students …
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Can interactive online training make high school students more entrepreneurial? : experimental evidence from Rwanda
Lafortune, Jeanne; Pugatch, Todd; Tessada, José A.; … - 2022
We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda … business than participants in control schools. The training induced students to participate more actively in their school … students to sustain their business activities during the COVID-19 crisis. …
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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
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 and adopt a difference-in-differences strategy exploiting the … face-to-face in the first semester. We compare students' performance in the second semester of 2020 with their performance …
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The impact of computer-assisted instruction on student performance : evidence from the Dual-Teacher program
Li, Haizheng; Liu, Zhiqiang; Yang, Fanzheng; Yu, Li - 2023
program on student performance but distinguish the direct effect coming from students' exposure to the lecture videos in class …
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Gender differences in student evaluations of teaching: identification and consequences
Cannon, Edmund S.; Cipriani, Giam Pietro - 2021
Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) have been suggested as one possible cause for low representation of women among academic economists. While econometric analyses using control variables certainly report that SETs can be influenced by the gender of both teacher and student, such studies may...
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A simple nudge increases socioeconomic diversity in undergraduate Economics
Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - 2021
. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …
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College credit on the table? : advanced placement course and exam taking
Fazlul, Ishtiaque; Jones, Todd R.; Smith, Jonathan - 2021
Millions of high school students who take an Advanced Placement (AP) course in one of over 30 subjects can earn college … that 15 percent of students' AP courses do not result in an AP exam. We predict that up to 32 percent of the AP courses … district exam subsidies on AP exam-taking rates. In fact, students on free and reduced-price lunch (FRL) in the districts that …
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Adams and Eves: the gender gap in economics majors
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bonacini, Luca; Murat, Marina - 2021
in the Economics gender gap among treated students. …
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