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Using goals to motivate college students : theory and evidence from field experiments
Clark, Damon; Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L.; Rush, Mark - 2016
: overconfidence and uncertainty about performance. Since task-based goal setting is low-cost, scaleable and logistically simple, we … causal effects of goal setting for college students. We report the results of two field experiments that involved almost four …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571859
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Using goals to motivate college students : theory and evidence from field experiments
Clark, Damon; Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria; Rush, Mark - 2018 - This version: December 19, 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161770
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Helping students to succeed : the long-term effects of soft commitments and reminders
Brade, Raphael; Himmler, Oliver; Jäckle, Robert; … - 2024
To study whether a soft commitment device can help students succeed, we conduct a randomized field experiment and follow a cohort of tertiary students over six years. Students can commit to following their recommended study program structure, and they receive reminders each semester. This easily...
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Goal setting and raising the bar : a field experiment
Lent, Max van; Souverijn, Michiel - 2016
We study goal setting using a randomized field experiment involving 1092 first-year undergraduate students. Students … a course-specific grade goal during one of the mentor-student meetings (goal treatment). A random subset of those … find that students in the goal treatment perform significantly better as compared to students in the control group, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583305
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Helping Students to Succeed – The Long-Term Effects of Soft Commitments and Reminders
Brade, Raphael; Himmler, Oliver; Jaeckle, Robert; … - 2024
To study whether a soft commitment device can help students succeed, we conduct a randomized field experiment and follow a cohort of tertiary students over six years. Students can commit to following their recommended study program structure, and they receive reminders each semester. This easily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534371
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Who performs better under time pressure? : results from a field experiment
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca - 2014
We investigate whether and how time pressure affects performance. We conducted a field experiment in which students from an Italian University are proposed to choose between two exam schemes: a standard scheme without time pressure and an alternative scheme consisting of two written intermediate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457827
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Women in engineering : the role of role models
Agurto Adrianzén, Marcos; Bazan, M.; Hari, S.; … - 2021
Gender disparities in STEM fields participation are a major cause of concern for policymakers around the world. In addition to talent misallocation, low female enrollment rates in STEM careers contribute to gender-based inequalities in earnings and wealth, given the higher average level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012659520
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Using Goals to Motivate College Students : Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments
Clark, Damon - 2019
the causal effects of goal setting for college students. We report the results of two field experiments that involved …. We use theory that builds on present bias and loss aversion to interpret our results. Since task-based goal setting is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902754
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Using Goals to Motivate College Students : Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments
Clark, Damon - 2016
: overconfidence and uncertainty about performance. Since task-based goal setting is low-cost, scaleable and logistically simple, we … causal effects of goal setting for college students. We report the results of two field experiments that involved almost four …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980340
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Does relative grading help male students? : evidence from a field experiment in the classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010399683