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Assessment takes place university wide, from evaluation of the entire institution to the micro focus of specific courses using learning objectives. Many faculty perceive assessment as already occurring through the assignment of grades. This paper investigates empirically the ongoing grades...
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The education and application of skills in it is an essential prerequisite for the growth and development of each national economy in the future. Investing in education and skills development are essential incentive for raising the growth and competitiveness of each country and its participation...
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The sunk cost fallacy is typically covered in introductory economics courses. It is among the most important biases that influence decision making. Ronayne et al. (2021a,b) find evidence of behavior consistent with the sunk cost effect and utilize eight questions that measure individuals'...
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The literature on adaptive learning suggests that it can provide significant improvements to the educational process and numerous studies have found a necessity for personalised learning, which is one of the strong suits of adaptive learning. Adaptive learning platforms require that content be...
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Analogies can simplify complex new material by relating it to ideas students already know. Making cross-disciplinary connections also makes the material more engaging, accessible and memorable. In this study, we perform a controlled empirical test to examine whether providing cross-discipline...
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, Jeopardy' (Harvard, 1991) regarding the history of the independence of Colombia. The Rhetoric of Independence extended the …
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We introduce the new typology of institutions. The classification is made via the methods for preparing of new …
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Recent technological changes accelerated by theglobalization of the economy has forced a productiverestructuring of enterprises, with negative impacts on thelevel of employment. This worldwide phenomena has beenspecially strong in Brazil due to the opening of its economyin the beginning of the...
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The labor market effects of remittances have long been examined in the empirical literature. To date, the results have been mixed: some authors observe a negative association between remittances and unemployment while others report that remittances increase unemployment. This paper empirically...
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Some middle-income economies, many of which Latin American, have not achieved to make the transition into high-income status for long years and are allegedly trapped in middle-income status. While there is considerable consensus on the proximate causes of this phenomenon, we present a global...
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