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Direct linkNyatanga, Phocenah; Mukorera, Sophia – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2019
This article uses a logistic probability distribution approach to examine the effect of lecture attendance, aptitude test results, individual heterogeneity and pedagogic intervention on student performance for first-year microeconomics and second-year macroeconomics modules at a leading South African university. The research was motivated by the…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Attendance, Intervention, Academic Achievement
Birch, Elisa; Williams, Andrew – Higher Education Review, 2015
Using a combination of survey and student record data from a first year university economics principles class, we look at the characteristics of students who are attending face-to-face lectures, versus those students who choose to view these same lectures via online lecture recordings. The survey includes the Biggs (2001) Revised Study Process…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Lecture Method, Integrated Learning Systems
Williams, Andrew; Birch, Elisa; Hancock, Phil – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
The use of online lecture recordings as a supplement to physical lectures is an increasingly popular tool at many universities. This paper combines survey data with student record data for students in a "Microeconomics Principles" class to examine the relative effects of lecture attendance and online lecture recordings. The main finding…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Video Technology, Educational Technology, Economics Education
Figlio, David N.; Rush, Mark; Yin, Lu – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
This paper presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus internet media of instruction. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures versus watching these same lectures in an internet setting, where all other factors (e.g., instruction,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Research Universities, Microeconomics, Internet
Malek, Ninos Pierre – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Economics education has been a topic of research interest to many economists. In addition, the philosophical and ethical content of economics and its role in economics education has been an issue of discussion. Chapter 1 of my dissertation addresses what topics should be ignored in a principles of microeconomics class, what the goal of the…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Economics Education, Microeconomics, Statistical Analysis
Stanca, Luca – Journal of Economic Education, 2006
The author presents new evidence on the effects of attendance on academic performance. He used a large panel data set for introductory microeconomics students to explicitly take into account the effect of unobservable factors correlated with attendance, such as ability, effort, and motivation. He found that neither proxy variables nor instrumental…
Descriptors: Attendance, Correlation, Microeconomics, Academic Achievement
