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Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – an Experimental Study
Grözinger, Nicola - 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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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance : A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander - 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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The Long-Term Impacts of Low-Achieving Childhood Peers : Evidence from Project Star
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2015
This paper evaluates how sharing a kindergarten classroom with low-achieving repeaters affects the long-term educational performance of regular first-time kindergarten students. Exploiting random assignment of teachers and students to classes in Project STAR, I document three sets of causal...
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Effects of Childhood Peers on Personality Skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2022
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
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Isolating the "Tech" from Edtech : Experimental Evidence on Computer Assisted Learning in China
Ma, Yue - 2020
EdTech which includes online education, computer assisted learning (CAL), and remote instruction was expanding rapidly even before the current full-scale substitution for in-person learning at all levels of education around the world because of the coronavirus pandemic. Studies of CAL...
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Distance Learning in Higher Education : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Cacault, María Paula - 2019
Using a randomized experiment in a public Swiss university, we study the impact of online live streaming of lectures on student achievement and attendance. We find that (i) students use the live streaming technology only punctually, apparently when random events make attending in class too...
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Technology and Education : Computers, Software, and the Internet
Bulman, George - 2015
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
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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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Online Teaching and Gender Bias
Ayllón, Sara - 2022
I study the impact of online instruction on teaching evaluations at a higher education institution in Spain. Using a difference-in-differences approach, I show that in the semester when teaching moved online, female lecturers were evaluated more poorly than in previous semesters. The performance...
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Effects of an Online Self-Assessment Tool on Teachers' Digital Competencies
Abbiati, Giovanni; Azzolini, Davide; Balanskat, Anja; … - 2023
We evaluate the effects of an online self-assessment tool on teachers' competencies and beliefs about ICT in education. The causal impact of the tool is evaluated through a randomized encouragement design, involving 7,391 lower secondary teachers across 11 European countries. Short-run impact...
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