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Learning at home: distance learning solutions and child development during the COVID-19 lockdown

Champeaux, Hugues; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Marchetta, Francesca - 2020

School closures, forced by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, impacted on children's lives and their learning process. There will likely be substantial and persistent disparities between families in terms of educational outcomes. Distant learning solutions adopted by schools have been...

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Innovation and communication media in virtual teams - an experimental study

Grözinger, Nicola; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Laske, Katharina; … - 2020

In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...

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An experiment on creativity in virtual teams

Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine; Klinkenberg, Lisa - 2024

The organization of work and the characteristics of tasks have undergone considerable changes in recent years. The developments include (i) an increased relevance of virtual teams and (ii) a higher demand for non-routine tasks in organizations, including creativity. Existing research on creative...

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Ability dispersion and team performance : a field experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … variation in - otherwise random - team composition is imposed by assigning individuals to teams based on their measured … complex decision-making. We propose a model in which greater ability dispersion generates greater knowledge for a team, but …

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Becker meets Ricardo : multisector matching with social and cognitive skills

McCann, Robert J.; Shi, Xianwen; Siow, Aloysius; … - 2012

individuals have heterogeneous social and cognitive skills. In the model, there are gains to specialization and team production …, but specialization requires communication and coordination between team members, and individuals with more social skills …

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Does the closeness of peers matter? : an investigation using online training platform data and survey data

Gu, Xin; Li, Haizheng - 2023

We study peer effects in online training participation using unique data from a large-scale online teacher training program. The platform data allow us to observe the accurate duration of attendance for every individual-lecture pair. We classify peer groups as close peers, local peers, and...

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Competing on the holodeck : the effect of virtual peers and heterogeneity in dynamic tournaments

Graff, Jan Frederik; Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - 2018

We propose experiments in virtual reality (VR) as a new approach to examining behavior in an economic context, e.g., heterogeneity in dynamic tournaments. We simulate a realistic working situation in a highly immersive environment. Implementing a tournament in VR, we are able to mitigate the...

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E-learning engagement gap during school closures: differences by academic performance

Amer-Mestre, Josep; Ayarza-Astigarraga, Alaitz; Lopes, Marta - 2021

We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic performance. Using data from Google Trends in Italy, we find that during the first lockdown, regions with a previously lower academic performance increased their searches for e-learning...

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E-learning at universities : does starting with difficult questions affect student performance?

Gałkiewicz, Agata Danuta; Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas - 2024

To reduce cheating in written tests and exams, assessors often randomly vary the order of questions across students. However, little is known about the potential unintended side effects of question order. This paper examines whether randomizing students to start with an easier or harder question...

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The company you keep : the positive peer effects of kindergarten on learning and mental health

Li, Yanan; Menon, Nidhiya; Sunder, Naveen - 2024

Attending kindergarten (KG) has been shown to have persistent benefits, but the peer effects of KG remain largely unexplored. We fill this gap in the literature by using nationally representative panel data on a cohort of middle-school students (grade 7) in China. We demonstrate that when peers...

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