Grades are used to evaluate students as well as to compare their scholastic achievements. They are used by graduate … schools as well as business firms to discriminate between students. But when grades are inflated, they cease to be an …

introductory microeconomics between one semester in which students were randomly assigned into the formats and another semester … when students were allowed to choose their format. In each semester we offered the same course with the sections taught at … effect of format. Students in the compressed format of the randomized arm of the study scored -0.19 standard deviations less …

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 and adopt a difference-in-differences strategy exploiting the … face-to-face in the first semester. We compare students' performance in the second semester of 2020 with their performance …

Motivated by the self-determination theory of psychology, we ask how simple school practices can forge students …’ engagement with the academic aspect of school life. We carried out a large-scale preregistered randomized field experiment with a … crossover design, involving all the students of the University of Szeged in Hungary. Our intervention consisted of an automated …