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The Value of a Peer
Isphording, Ingo E. - 2020
This paper introduces peer value-added, a new approach to quantify the total contribution of an individual peer to student performance. Peer value-added captures social spillovers irrespective of whether they are generated by observable or unobservable peer characteristics. Using data with...
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Are professors worth it? : the value-added and costs of tutorial instructors
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018
A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions - small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank teach tutorials more effectively in a setting where students are randomly assigned to tutorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950759
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Are professors worth it? : the value-added and costs of tutorial instructors
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018
A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions - small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank teach tutorials more effectively in a setting where students are randomly assigned to tutorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880526
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Are professors worth it? : the value-added and costs of tutorial instructors
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018
A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions - small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank teach tutorials more effectively in a setting where students are randomly assigned to tutorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936343
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Gpt as Knowledge Worker : A Zero-Shot Evaluation of (AI)CPA Capabilities
Bommarito, Jillian; Bommarito, Michael James; Ann … - 2023
The global economy is increasingly dependent on knowledge workers to meet the needs of public and private organizations …. While there is no single definition of knowledge work, organizations and industry groups still attempt to measure … individuals’ capability to engage in it. The most comprehensive assessment of capability readiness for professional knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014263548
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Discriminating Behavior : Evidence of Teachers' Grading Bias
Ferman, Bruno; Fontes, Luiz Felipe - 2021
This paper tests a channel that could explain part of the association between some behavioral skills and educational attainment: teachers' assessment practices that unequally evaluate students on the basis of their classroom behavior rather than their scholastic competence. Evidence is drawn...
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What is at Stake Without High-Stakes Exams? Students' Evaluation and Admission to College at the Time of Covid-19
Arenas, Andreu; Calsamiglia, Caterina; Loviglio, Annalisa - 2021
The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 inhibited face-to-face education and constrained exam taking. In many countries worldwide, high-stakes exams happening at the end of the school year determine college admissions. This paper investigates the impact of using historical data of school and...
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Teacher grade predictions for ethnic minority groups : evidence from England
Burn, Hester; Fumagalli, Laura; Rabe, Birgitta - 2023
We explore whether teachers have different predictions for the examination performance of ethnic minority students relative to White British students. We exploit an exogenous change in assessment methods to compare grades based on teacher predictions to grades received through actual blindly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014246492
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Is AI ground truth really true? : the dangers of training and evaluating AI tools based on experts' know-what
Lebovitz, Sarah; Levina, Natalia; Lifshitz-Assa, Hila - In: MIS quarterly 45 (2021) 3, pp. 1501-1526
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When do experts listen to other experts? : the role of negative information in expert evaluations for novel projects
Lane, Jacqueline N.; Teplitskiy, Misha; Gray, Gary; … - 2020
The evaluation and selection of novel projects lies at the heart of scientific and technological innovation, and yet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263454