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Incentives and Student Learning : A Natural Experiment with Economics Problem Sets
Grove, Wayne A. - 2013
success. Based on data from a natural experiment, we estimate the gains in student cognitive achievement in an introductory …
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On Guessing : An Alternative Adjusted Positive Learning Estimator and Comparing Probability Misspecification with Monte Carlo Simulations
Smith, Ben - 2020
Instructors and researchers have used the ‘flow' of knowledge (post-test score minus pre-test score) to measure learning in the classroom for the past fifty years. Walstad and Wagner (2016) and Smith and Wagner (2018) move this practice forward by disag- gregating the flow of knowledge and...
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A Goldsmith Experiment for Learning Money Creation
Pearlman, Sarah - 2012
The paper presents a classroom experiment designed to improve undergraduate students' understanding of how banks create …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098918
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A Futures Trading Experiment : An Active Classroom Approach to Learning
Mitchell, David T. - 2014
This paper presents a classroom experiment where students participate in a simulated futures market. This experiment … are closed, and observe how spot and futures markets relate. After participating in the futures experiment, students … participate in a debriefing session to help them solidify their learning. This experiment can be successfully adopted in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067283
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Play to Learn? An Experiment
Swarthout, J. Todd; Dufwenberg, Martin - 2011
Does playing a game in class improve students' ability to analyze the game using game theory? We report results from an experimental design which allows us to test a series of related hypotheses. We fail to find support for the conjectured learning-enhancing effects and discuss what lessons can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186422
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Challenges in educational reform : an experiment on active learning in mathematics
Berlinski, Samuel G.; Busso, Matias - 2015
This paper reports the results of an experiment with secondary school students designed to improve their ability to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289259
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Confidence in Knowledge or Confidence in the Ability to Learn : an Experiment on the Causal Effects of Beliefs on Motivation
Fischer, Mira - 2018
Previous research has shown that feedback about past performance has ambiguous effects on subsequent performance. We argue that feedback affects beliefs in different dimensions – namely beliefs about the level of human capital and beliefs about the ability to learn – and this may explain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926724
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Learning About Oneself : The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice
Bobba, Matteo - 2017
This paper designs and implements a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958079
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Learning About Oneself : The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice
Bobba, Matteo - 2016
We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978953
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Food for Thought? : Experimental Evidence on the Learning Impacts of a Large-Scale School Feeding Program in Ghana
Aurino, Elisabetta; Gelli, Aulo; Adamba, Clement; … - 2021
There is very limited experimental evidence of the impact of large-scale, government-led school meals programs on child educational achievements in Sub-Saharan Africa. We address this gap by reporting treatment effects from a nationwide randomized trial of the Government of Ghana’s school...
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