This paper explores some of the problems of offering a unidisciplinary major in a world where disciplines and technology are converging. The rules of the education game are being changed by MOOCs, company-administered classes, and certificate programs. A question being asked is why pay as much...

Current AACSB accreditation Standards require member institutions to incorporate the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) into their curriculum. The problem with this requirement is that the SDG constitute mostly erroneous economics. Professors who must incorporate SDG into...

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...

Our study focuses on the effect of personality type and personality preferences measured by the Myers-Briggs typology, on higher education students' choice of profession and on their academic performance. We statistically analyzed a sample from two slightly similar bachelor majors studied at the...

Spanish Abstract: Producto del seguimiento longitudinal de egresados, a estudiantes de Administración y Contaduría; este reporte muestra los principales indicadores relacionados con trayectorias laborales y ubicación en el mercado laboral, de alumnos de la generación 2007-2011, entrevistados...

Teaching technology effects on student learning in a large lecture introductory statistics course were tested. Findings show in-class personal response systems and on-line homework/quizzes significantly improve student exam scores. We infer proven small class techniques, participating in class...

This paper examines the role of family income, net tuition, ability, and gender as determinants of a student's choice in college major - focusing on the Economics major in particular. A Multinomial Logit model is utilized using data from the 1993-94 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study....

The determination of college students' academic performance is an important issue in higher education. Whether students' attendance at lectures affects students' exam performance has received considerable attention. The authors conduct a randomized experiment to study the average attendance...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the existence of inefficiency within economics undergraduates and to identify factors that may account for it. Data Envelopment Analysis reveals that both 'pure' technical inefficiency and scale inefficiency exists. Tobit and logit regression show that...

We examine how students that transfer credit for an introductory-level course from schools of varying quality perform in a subsequent intermediate-level course, holding constant many student characteristics. We measure college quality by the percent of students admitted, the faculty-student...