. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures … instruction. These results are particularly strong for Hispanic students, male students, and lower-achieving students. We also …

This paper is the first to explore the effects of school accountability systems on high-achieving students' long … basic skills apparently led to generally reduced performance by high-achieving students, while an accountability system … other technical subjects. Both types of systems are associated with increased quot;crammingquot; by students in college. The …

investigate this claim using a simple model of Bayesian learning. Two individuals with different priors observe the same infinite … implications for economic behavior in a range of circumstances. We illustrate how the type of learning outlined in this paper …

problem-based pedagogy (IPP) on students' mathematics and science test scores. IPP creates active problem …-solving opportunities in settings that provide meaning to the child. Students learn by collaboratively solving real-life problems …, developing explanations, and communicating ideas. Using individual-level data on 17,006 students, the analysis finds that after …

Classroom peers are believed to influence learning by teaching each other, and the efficacy of this teaching likely … tracking—grouping students of similar ability—is complicated by the fact that tracking is typically accompanied by changes in … curriculum and the instructional behavior of teachers. To fill this gap, we conduct a laboratory experiment in which subjects …

which peer effects unambiguously help weak students catch up with the rest of the class without imposing any learning cost …We conduct a large scale RCT to investigate peer effects in computer assisted learning (CAL). Identification of peer … strengthened, both in terms of average effect and in terms of reduced dispersion, if weak students are systematically paired with …

We present results about the effects of observing others' choices, called observational learning, on individuals …' behavior and subjective well-being in the context of restaurant dining from a randomized natural field experiment. Our … experimental design aims to distinguish observational learning effect from saliency effect (because observing others' choices also …

Using a high-stakes field experiment conducted with a financial brokerage, we implement a novel design to separately … asset, his peers may also want to purchase it, both because they learn from his choice ("social learning") and because his …

increasingly important. We take advantage of a natural experiment to evaluate the causal effects of failing a high-stakes test on … examinations, states divide a continuous performance measure into dichotomous categories, so students with essentially identical … performance may have different outcomes. We find that, for low-income urban students on the margin of passing, failing the 10th …