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Peer Learning in Teams and Work Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Kamei, Kenju; Ashworth, John - 2021

A novel field experiment shows that learning activities in pairs with a greater spread in abilities lead to better individual work performance, relative to those in pairs with similar abilities. The positive effect of the former is not limited to their performance in peer learning material, but...

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Culture as an individual process: Deficits of national cultural theories in management of cultural diversity

Lenz, Rainer - 2008

Most prevalent theories in cross cultural management reduce the variability of individual relations to one single category, the national culture. Based on the assumption that the national cultural values determine individual behavior the individual’s behavior in different national cultures...

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Poverty - A Simple Approach to Eradicate IT

Subramaniam, Viswanatha - 2021

A Country is a predefined territory, where people live along with the nature and other living species. A Nation is with registered and identified group of people as the citizens. Each living group in a nation is identified as a Household. Poverty is the inability to buy the Basic Needs by a...

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Are Public Schools in Developing Countries Ready to Integrate EdTech into Regular Instruction?

Ferman, Bruno; Finamor, Lucas; Lima, Lycia - 2019

We study the impacts of a program that introduced a computer-assisted learning platform into regular math classes using a randomized control trial in Brazilian primary public schools. Once a week, teachers would take their students to the school's computer lab and teach using the online Khan...

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A Randomized Impact Evaluation of a Tuition-Free Private School Targeting Low Income Students in Uruguay

Cid, Alejandro; Balsa, Ana I. - 2016

school education to poor students in Montevideo, Uruguay. The research compares adolescents randomly selected to enter the … education system. We find large positive impacts of Liceo Jubilar on students’ promotion rates and academic expectations. Our … results shed light on new approaches to education that may contribute to improve opportunities for disadvantaged adolescents …

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Are Public Schools Ready to Integrate Math Classes with Khan Academy?

Ferman, Bruno; Finamor, Lucas; Lima, Lycia - 2019

We study the impacts of the program Khan Academy in Schools using a randomized control trial in Brazilian primary public schools. Once a week, teachers would take their students to the school's computer lab and teach using the Khan Academy platform, instead of their standard math classes. We...

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Are Public Schools Ready to Integrate Math Classes with Khan Academy?

Ferman, Bruno; Finamor, Lucas; Lima, Lycia - 2019

We study the impacts of the program Khan Academy in Schools using a randomized control trial in Brazilian primary public schools. Once a week, teachers would take their students to the school's computer lab and teach using the computer-assisted learning platform, instead of their standard math...

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Social Information and Educational Investment - Nudging Remedial Math Course Participation

Brade, Raphael - 2022

Using randomized field experiments, I investigate the effectiveness of two social information interventions at increasing participation in a voluntary remedial math course for university students. In Intervention 1, incoming students receive invitation letters with information about the course...

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Peer Effects and Students’ Self-Control

Buechel, Berno; Mechtenberg, Lydia; Petersen, Julia - 2014

We conducted a multi-wave field experiment to study the interaction of peer effects and self-control among undergraduate students. We use a behavioral measure of self-control based on whether students achieve study related goals they have set for themselves. We find that both self-control and...

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Quality of Education among Primary School Children receiving Mid-Day Meal: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Kundu, Amit; Dutt, Gitanjali - 2014

This paper on the basis of Quasi-experiment shows that ‘quality of education’ of the students of the government owned … primary schools getting mid-day meal are not satisfactory. Lack of giving sufficient importance on education by the parents …

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