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helps teachers leverage their domain knowledge and helps students learn both a new topic and a new information technology …
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Information provided at the moment a person makes a decision can influence behavior in predictable ways. The United Kingdom's Behavioural Insights Team have used this idea to help improve the insulation of lofts, collect taxes, and even reduce litter. The authors of this article developed...
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colleagues, students, and the general public. It is also a great place to gather information relevant to undergraduate economics … supplemental information with students. This article contains a detailed, step-by-step guide to embedding a twitter feed within a … LMS. Examples of how twitter can be used to share information to students in a Principles of Macroeconomics course are …
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disadvantaged Moldovan secondary students compare to that of better-off students; (ii) what are the determinants of performance and … reforms so that to improve the quality of education for students from both genders and from all socio-economics backgrounds … ensure that students directly affected by the reform are adequately accommodated in the receiving schools). To answer these …
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sample of first year students studying macroeconomics in a regional Australian university. Our findings, based on OLS and … sections of the final exam. Non-minority students do better in the multiple choice section, but not in the written answer … section, than minority students. Finally, there is some evidence that longer travel times to and from campus also reduce …
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This paper investigates the determinants of students' attitude toward economic literacy. Because the majority of … students take principles courses as required rather than as elective the question of interest is what may cause students who … prior research findings a simultaneous equations probit model is built and estimated using data collected from students …
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This study investigates the effect of the use of computers per se and the use of graphs on students' achievement in … learning college level introductory economics. The study is based on an experiment in which students could engage in equivalent … learning activities either using a workbook or using a computer, and in which students were encouraged to learn graphs and use …
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of Microeconomics. This study asked students in several different microeconomics classes at a medium sized regional … dependent variable in the second equation. We find that, everything else equal, students seem more motivated to come to class …
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, on higher education students' choice of profession and on their academic performance. We statistically analyzed a sample … dichotomies (the latter was significant only for female students). We also found differences in the explanatory power of …
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