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Münster were evaluated not only by distributing official paper surveys but also by asking the students to fill out online …
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This study comprises 128 cases in which the same students have evaluated one lecture at two different points of time … between grades and students' evaluations of teaching (which are often observed) are not fully explainable by the grading … leniency hypothesis and/or the students' characteristics hypothesis. Rather university lecturers seem to have the opportunity …
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leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …
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universities. Firstly, it is shown theoretically that in a world with differently-gifted poor and rich students, a three …-tier university system may become very stable, with a super league of the best research universities that attract the best students …
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We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to … deviation deterioration of the average grade. Further, the effect is heterogenous as female and higher income students seem …
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reconstructing frames and identity options offered to undergraduate students relating to the questions "Why study economics?"and "Who …
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examining whether a "pop culture" teaching intervention in principles of microeconomics lowers students' predisposition to the … fallacy. We find that students become -14.95% less susceptible to the sunk cost fallacy after learning about it. We also … observe that students who have taken economics previously exhibit lower susceptibility in all time periods. …
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The advent of the internet, and more recently of artificial intelligence (AI), has challenged academic and other institutions to ensure ethical practices and reward/promote true merit. The borderless and relatively anonymous nature of the internet creates policing challenges, leading to the...
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. Conducting a randomized controlled trial among 337 high school students, we find that the program significantly influences … students' decisions, increasing the likelihood of choosing a field aligned with their mentor's by 22 percentage points … mentorship's potential to guide students towards more informed and beneficial educational choices. …
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