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Helping Students to Succeed – The Long-Term Effects of Soft Commitments and Reminders
Brade, Raphael; Himmler, Oliver; Jaeckle, Robert; … - 2024
To study whether a soft commitment device can help students succeed, we conduct a randomized field experiment and follow a cohort of tertiary students over six years. Students can commit to following their recommended study program structure, and they receive reminders each semester. This easily...
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Women in Engineering: The Role of Role Models
Agurto, M.; Bazan, M.; Hari, S.; Sarangi, S. - 2021
Gender disparities in STEM fields participation are a major cause of concern for policymakers around the world. In addition to talent misallocation, low female enrollment rates in STEM careers contribute to gender-based inequalities in earnings and wealth, given the higher average level of...
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Who Performs Better under Time Pressure? Results from a Field Experiment
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca - 2014
We investigate whether and how time pressure affects performance. We conducted a field experiment in which students from an Italian University are proposed to choose between two exam schemes: a standard scheme without time pressure and an alternative scheme consisting of two written intermediate...
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Goal Setting and Raising the Bar: A Field Experiment
van Lent, Max; Souverijn, Michiel - 2017
We study goal setting using a randomized field experiment involving 1092 first-year undergraduate students. Students … a course-specific grade goal during one of the mentor-student meetings (goal treatment). A random subset of those … find that students in the goal treatment perform significantly better as compared to students in the control group, and …
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Work Hard or Play Hard? Degree Class, Student Leadership and Employment Opportunities
Baert, Stijn; Verhaest, Dieter - 2018
We investigated the impact on first hiring outcomes of two main curriculum vitae (CV) characteristics by which graduates with a tertiary education degree distinguish themselves from their peers: degree class and extra-curricular activities. These characteristics were randomly assigned to 2,800...
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Work Hard or Play Hard? Degree Class, Student Leadership and Employment Opportunities
Baert, Stijn; Verhaest, Dieter - 2018
We investigated the impact on first hiring outcomes of two main curriculum vitae (CV) characteristics by which graduates with a tertiary education degree distinguish themselves from their peers: degree class and extra-curricular activities. These characteristics were randomly assigned to 2,800...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929521
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Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; van … - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409413
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Does Relative Grading help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; van … - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491348
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Social Information and Educational Investment – Nudging Remedial Math Course Participation
Brade, Raphael - 2021
In the context of a voluntary remedial math course for university students, we conduct randomized field experiments to study whether social information can help counteract low participation rates. Incoming students receive postal invitation and reminder letters that inform them about past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623139
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Relative Performance Feedback and Long-Term Tasks – Experimental Evidence from Higher Education
Brade, Raphael; Himmler, Oliver; Jaeckle, Robert - 2023
We present first experimental evidence that relative performance feedback improves both the speed and quality with which challenging long-term tasks are completed. Providing university students with ongoing relative feedback on accumulated course credits accelerates graduation by 0.12 SD, and...
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