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Stadler, Matthias; Kolb, Nicola; Sailer, Michael – Distance Education, 2021
To slow the spread of COVID-19, many universities have had to move to online teaching, which entails changing exams from in-person to online. Online exams can facilitate cheating when there is no direct proctoring. To provide some form of control in unproctored exams, Cluskey et al. (2011) suggested having substantial time pressure; yet there are…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Online Courses
Krekel, Christian – Centre for Economic Performance, 2017
We study whether raising instructional time can crowd out student pro-social behaviour. To this end, we exploit a large educational reform in Germany that has raised weekly instructional hours for high school students by 12.5% as a quasi-natural experiment. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that this rise has a negative and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Educational Change, Time on Task
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Forsterling, Friedrich; Morgenstern, Matthis – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2002
An integration of conceptions about attributional antecedents with those of attributional consequences is applied to achievement behavior. Results reveal that participants who were induced to make realistic attributions spent more time on tasks for which they had demonstrated high ability than on tasks for which they had demonstrated low ability.…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement Need, Attribution Theory, Foreign Countries