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Confidence in Knowledge or Confidence in the Ability to Learn : an Experiment on the Causal Effects of Beliefs on Motivation

Fischer, Mira - 2018

Previous research has shown that feedback about past performance has ambiguous effects on subsequent performance. We argue that feedback affects beliefs in different dimensions – namely beliefs about the level of human capital and beliefs about the ability to learn – and this may explain...

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What does economics assume about people's knowledge? : who knows?

Caleiro, António - 2007 - 1st version: April 15, 2007, this version: October 16, 2007

The purpose of the paper is to explore, from an assessment viewpoint, the ideas below. Economics, as a social science, has always considered sets of individuals with assumed characteristics, namely the level of knowledge, although in an implicit way in most of the cases. In this sense, an...

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The creation and diffusion of knowledge - an agent based modelling approach

De Albuquerque, Emmanuel P. - 2021

In this paper I propose a novel abstract mechanism for the creation and diffusion of knowledge and use an agent based modelling approach to explore it. The mechanism takes into account the relation between the phenomena that agents attempt to explain and the stocks of knowledge available in a...

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The cone-of-learning : a visual comparison of learning systems

Hamilton, John; Tee, Singwhat - In: The TQM journal : the international review of … 28 (2016) 1, pp. 21-39

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Learning-Testing Process in Classroom: An Empirical Simulation Model

Buda, Rodolphe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper presents an empirical micro-simulation model of the teaching and the testing process in the classroomH. It is a non-econometric micro-simulation model describing informational behaviors of the pupils, based on the observation of the pupils’ communication behavior during lessons and...

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Serial entrepreneurship, learning by doing and self-selection

Rocha, Vera; Carneiro, Anabela; Varum, Celeste Amorim - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013

It remains a question whether serial entrepreneurs typically perform better than their novice counterparts owing to learning by doing e¤ects or mostly because they are a selected sample of higher-than-average ability entrepreneurs. This paper tries to unravel these two effects by exploring a...

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Learning to let go : A field experiment on benchmarking and entrepreneur exit

Hou, Yun; Png, Ivan P. L. - 2022

Entrepreneurs are reluctant to exit. How does information about peers, specifically, benchmarking, affect exit? To … investigate this question, we carried out a randomized controlled trial of benchmarking among 194 food-stall owners in Singapore … their relative performance and best practices. The benchmarking treatment induced owners to exit, especially worse …

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Induction : processes of inference, learning, and discovery

Holland, John H.; Holyoak, Keith James; Nisbett, Richard E. - 1996 - 5th print

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Methodological choice and design : scholarship, policy and practice in social and educational research

Markauskaite, Lina (ed.); Freebody, Peter (contributor); … - 2010 - 1. ed.

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A conceptual model for eliciting mental models using a composite methodology

Grenier, Robin S.; Dudzinska-Przesmitzki, Dana - In: Human resource development review : HRD review 14 (2015) 2, pp. 163-184

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