. This paper explores the use of blogs in the teaching and assessment of a small (40-60 students) introductory economics … collected across four semesters, students’ participation in the blog assessment is found to be associated with student ability …, gender, and whether they are distance learners. Importantly, students with past economics experience do not appear to crowd …

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 … find evidence that men indeed score significantly higher on the test when graded on a curve. Female students, irrespective …

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 … find evidence that men indeed score significantly higher on the test when graded on a curve. Female students, irrespective …

This study investigates the effect of the use of computers per se and the use of graphs on students' achievement in … learning college level introductory economics. The study is based on an experiment in which students could engage in equivalent … learning activities either using a workbook or using a computer, and in which students were encouraged to learn graphs and use …

tuition hikes. China's government has put forth financial aid programs to enable poor students to access higher education …. Although studies have shown that poor high school students are indeed able to attend college when their test scores are high … students have sufficient amounts of aid to thrive in college.Using findings from a randomized controlled trial, this study …

third year students were chosen as respondents. A very large number of students indicated remembering a bit or some of the … grouping of economic concepts that were retained by the students. The principal component analysis method and orthogonal … significance of the chosen characteristics to the students' degree of retention of the indicated concepts though the model fit on …

achievements of students in higher education. In present study show that several factors that are affected by students. Data were … collected from 100 graduate and post graduate students of a public university in Bangladesh, using a structured questionnaire …, political affiliation, and family profile of the students. So, the Government will take some initiative for different kinds of …