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informational and social support barriers to college application and enrollment among socioeconomically disadvantaged students …. Students who were randomly assigned to the program felt more supported during the college application process and applied more … intermediate outcomes were larger for the types of students we anticipated would most need additional support during the college …
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promote healthier sleep habits. Toward this end, we conducted a field experiment with college students, providing them …
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-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we …
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field experiment designed to mimic important aspects of competitive investment prior to the college market. We pay students … for the majority of disadvantaged students targeted by the policy, by mitigating so-called "discouragement effects." The …
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-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046682
a year later. Only those teachers whose self-assessment before the experiment is much more positive than their students …We conducted a field experiment to examine the effects of student feedback to teachers at a large Dutch school for … intermediate vocational education. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received …
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This paper uses a quasi-randomized field experiment in Zimbabwe to understand the impact of a large-scale intervention … point increase in the likelihood that students in the treatment group reported receiving enough support from their community … families. The program facilitated better learning and progression outcomes, with marginalized students performing 0.28 SD …
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We conducted a framed field experiment to explore a situation where individuals have potentially competing social … Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City on two groups of high school students with … different backgrounds, i.e., French bilingual and monolingual (Vietnamese) students. We find strong evidence for the presence of …
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We report results from a large-scale, pre-registered randomized field experiment in 159 Norwegian schools over four … years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased …
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This paper reports the results of a large randomized field experiment that investigates the extent to which nudges can … students’ perceived impact of teaching evaluations, (2) communicate a descriptive norm of high participation, and (3) use the … commitment-consistency principle by asking students to commit to participation. We find that none of the nudges were effective …
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