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In research into higher education, the evaluation of completion and dropout rates has generated a steady stream of interest for decades. While most studies only calculate quotes using student and graduate numbers for both phenomena, we propose to also consider the budget available to...
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This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …
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This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …
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This paper builds upon the work of Dalton and Logan (forthcoming a) by describing the motivation for and mechanics of teaching a course dedicated to Schumpeter as a study abroad program in the city of Vienna. We argue that the qualities Vienna possesses, both historical and contemporary, make a...
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third year students were chosen as respondents. A very large number of students indicated remembering a bit or some of the … grouping of economic concepts that were retained by the students. The principal component analysis method and orthogonal … significance of the chosen characteristics to the students' degree of retention of the indicated concepts though the model fit on …
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This study was carried out to determine the economic literacy of university students. Standards of Economic Survey …, when the correct responses of the students were turned into scores, it was revealed that they had a mean score of 65; that … both female and male students had the same number of correct answers, while the students taking the economy course were …
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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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Critiques of the mainstream economics curriculum raise two keys concerns: 1) the limited opportunities for students to … engage with and expand their critical thinking skills and democratic values; 2) the possibility that students will develop a … undergraduate students in an economics program in an urban university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The exclusion of alternative …
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achievements of students in higher education. In present study show that several factors that are affected by students. Data were … collected from 100 graduate and post graduate students of a public university in Bangladesh, using a structured questionnaire …, political affiliation, and family profile of the students. So, the Government will take some initiative for different kinds of …
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