The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...

Bereits 2002 wurden bei einer BWL-Klausur zwei PISA-Aufgaben gestellt und die Rechtschreibung überprüft, was wiederum mit den Noten bzw. Punkten der Klausur korreliert wurde. Es gibt interessante Ergebnisse und Zusammenhänge, die jedoch nicht völlig eindeutig sind.

Die Fähigkeit und das Wissen, Finanzplanungen vorzunehmen und eigene Finanzen zu managen, sogenannte Finance Literacy, haben enorm an Bedeutung zur gesellschaftlichen Teilhabe gewonnen. In diesem Beitrag wird eine empirische Evaluation der Finance Literacy von Studierenden durchgeführt. Der...

In dieser Studie werden 128 Fälle betrachtet, in denen dieselben Studenten eine Vorlesung zu zwei verschiedenen Zeitpunkten evaluiert haben. Die Besonderheit dabei ist, dass ausschließlich Fälle berücksichtigt werden, in denen die zum Zeitpunkt der Evaluation erwartete oder bereits erhaltene...

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...

For the standardized Test of Higher Education Quality (ECAES) taken in 2007 by undergraduate economics students in Colombia, we apply the DiNardo, Fortin, and Lemieux (1996) decomposition technique to estimate what would be the distribution of scores for student in non-accredited programs if...

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...

The purpose of this article is to discuss the possibility of using e-learning in higher education and corporations to improve quality and employee effectiveness. There is no agreement about its influence on results of education among authors of publications regarding e-learning. Some authors...

A growing number of courses have been created lately in higher education in Brazil. The quality of these courses must be maintained to ensure that professionals are prepared for the labour market. The present work aims to identify, through a case study, the factors that contribute so that the...

Spanish Abstract: Si bien los problemas de deserción y rezago de los estudiantes matriculados en Educación Superior son multifactoriales, diversos estudios coinciden que tratándose de los problemas que afectan al rendimiento escolar primordialmente tienen que ver con inadecuados perfiles de...