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We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading … a reading assessment, causing students' scores to improve by 0.13 standard deviations immediately after the program. The …
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to loss framing. High-performers increase performance in both treatment groups but motivation is significantly crowded …
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We study goal setting using a randomized field experiment involving 1092 first-year undergraduate students. Students have private mentor-student meetings during the year. We instructed a random subset of mentors to encourage students to set a course-specific grade goal during one of the...
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The functionality of the new economic system of Republic of Moldavia, based on market relations and opened to world, frequently marked by dynamism, often by uncertainty and risk, sometimes even hostility, depends, crucially, on the innovation activity. Innovation activity, formation of...
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This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become … effect of entrepreneurship education on students' intentions to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the long-term but a … discouraging effect on their intentions in the short-term. These results support the conjecture that entrepreneurship education …
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whether the ordering of feedback elements matters for motivation and performance. In random order, university students get one … a drop in motivation after negative feedback when receiving it first, but not when receiving it second. Furthermore …
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This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education … which positive and negative performance feedback is provided, matters for study motivation and to some extent also exam …
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creativity in teaching, and the role of management in educational institutions. The motivation and professional development of … provide quality education in accordance with the world trends and standards. This paper is an action research conducted in …
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Attention is a pivotal resource in the modern economy and plays an increasingly prominent role in economic analysis. We summarize research on attention from both psychology and economics, placing a particular emphasis on its capacity to explain numerous documented violations of classical...
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We study attitudes to education among English adolescents. Using PISA data, we show there is considerable variation in … also show that students in London have more positive attitudes to education on average, but this is entirely accounted for …
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