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availability of strong review pieces in the topic, there is no pedagogical paper on randomized evaluation. This paper bridges the … implement and provide students an opportunity to participate in a simple randomized trial of their own …
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problem set effects for. Graded problem sets raised the average students' exam performance enough to increase their course GPA … by one-third of a letter grade. Hardworking, scholastically below-average students' receive additional academic …
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used to assess students' understanding of economics principles and for research into teaching methods. In this article, we … extremely low — more than 70 percent of the students who normed the TUCE post-tests would have earned a D or F on these tests …. Second, students' understanding has declined substantially — the proportion of students who would have earned a D or F has …
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The purpose of this study is to examine a controversial debate whether students who spend more time on completing the … students' efforts) on an assignment and students' learning outcomes. The study uses a unique dataset with the students’ out …
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-experimental design on a sample of 100 students of an undergraduate economics class at NYU. A control group has to fill out the …
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that allow evaluation of correlations between these instruments with absolute accuracy and practically instantaneously. In …
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This article explores the effectiveness of applying a new multidimensional graphical method to the teaching and learning of economics. In essence, the paper extends the significance of multi-dimensional graphs to study any economic phenomenon from a multidimensional perspective. The paper...
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only a few freely available macroeconomic simulators on the Internet which are suitable for undergraduate students. The two … monetary policy. Thus, there is no educational simulator that allows students to examine the effects of fiscal policy. This is …
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Over the last four decades since Baumol's 1968 critique, there has been some progress in incorporating entrepreneurship into principles of economics texts. However, the critical roles of entrepreneurs in creating, operating, and destroying markets are generally either absent or relegated to...
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At many large universities it is conventional to deliver undergraduate introductory economics courses in a large lecture hall. However, not surprisingly, casual empiricism suggests that rates of student absenteeism are significantly greater in a large lecture format than in a smaller classroom...
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