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-speaking students, aligns 35 financial concepts and 7 general teaching concepts with one or more French proverbs. French proverbs allow … students to link new information with previous knowledge, thereby increasing the comprehension and retention of new material … relationship with students. The article provides a brief description of each concept, a phonetic and literal translation of the …
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any empirical support that male participants are more corrupt in comparison to female participants. Students majoring in … economics or business/management show more corrupt behavior than students studying to become economics school teachers, but the …
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This paper suggests the use of Russian proverbs related to money to engage Russian-speaking students in the business … classroom. Russian proverbs enhance teaching by appealing to Russian students' cultural background, by presenting ideas in a …-speaking instructors to break down language barriers and to develop a close relationship with students. The use of Russian proverbs …
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-year college students' initial preconceptions about economic issues, explore some cognitive biases behind them, verify their … the semester on a sample of students taking an economic principles course. We find evidence of preconception persistence …, inconsistencies and self-serving bias. Most students do not incorporate the newly learned tools into their thinking process, even if …
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The relationship between student online activity (including access to specific course materials) and student performance is examined in a traditional face-to-face introductory finance course supported with a class web site. Six measures are used: total hits, hit consistency, number of unique...
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disadvantaged Moldovan secondary students compare to that of better-off students; (ii) what are the determinants of performance and … reforms so that to improve the quality of education for students from both genders and from all socio-economics backgrounds … ensure that students directly affected by the reform are adequately accommodated in the receiving schools). To answer these …
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loss aversion to encourage student effort. This field experiment endows students with all of the points in the course … upfront, then deducts points for every error throughout the semester. Students perform three to four percentage points better …
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This paper suggests the use of Chinese proverbs in the teaching of finance to Chinese-speaking students. Familiar … proverbs facilitate teaching to Chinese students by appealing to students' prior knowledge, improving retention of new material … American students by promoting the understanding of Chinese culture. This paper presents thirty-six financial concepts …
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This paper proposes the use of Spanish proverbs for teaching finance to Hispanic students. Spanish proverbs facilitate … teaching by appealing to Hispanic students' cultural background, by introducing ideas in a succinct and unique way, and by … and establish a trusting relationship with students. In addition, Spanish proverbs benefit English-speaking students by …
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This paper approaches the services offered to the students by the faculties of Economic studies. We use the results … resulted from an investigation of the students' perceptions about these faculties. We try to find out the aspects that matter … when students evaluate the universities. Based on certain aspects, we also try to compare the services offered by a faculty …
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