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Category Archives: The Experiment
Research-Based Teaching
The other week, I blogged on Carl Wiemer’s podcast on research-based teaching. After thinking about it some more, I think I can do a more succinct job of defining what Wiemer calls research-based teaching. 1. Research-based teaching starts with an … Continue reading
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At the Risk of Possibly Over-Analyzing
Today I had two miserable sections of my experimental principles course, the worst I can remember this semester. The majority of students didn’t seem to remember anything from last week. They looked at me dumbly for most of the class. … Continue reading
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Measurement Error on the Effects of the Metas
What about the students who “rationally” choose not to do the metas and end up doing well anyway? That will result in a negative bias in the coefficient estimates. I had a handful of students in this group.
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Student Metas as Instructor Formative Assessment
This weekend, I’ve discovered that the students’ metacognitive activities can be formative assessments for the instructor as well. First, the data. 14/49 students submitted this second meta. That’s four more than the first one. Of these fourteen, 6 students were … Continue reading
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Back to the Experiment!
I started a new topic today (production and costs) in my introductory micro course. For some years I’ve felt that this material was tedious and that I was spending too much time on it. (Think of all the permutations and … Continue reading
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What’s a Class Session for?
Steve Dembo (via Will Richardson) observes that instructors who podcast their lectures are reporting a decrease in class attendance. This is essentially the same concern that arose when instructors began posting the powerpoint slides from their lecture notes, or even … Continue reading
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Good Class Today
Today, I had a very successful class in both sections of my intro course. The material I presented was my take on the “economic way of thinking” (the methodological approach used by economists), which I boiled down to six principles … Continue reading
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Preliminary Evaluation of the Experiment — Part 2
In the previous posting I reflected on the changes in course content I made last semester. Here I want to comment on the meta activities. One of the things I did over Winter Break was to analyze the frequency of … Continue reading
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Preliminary Evaluation of the Experiment — Part 1
I finished the first semester of my experimental intro course. Here are some preliminary thoughts about how it worked out. The original intent was to change the course in two ways, first by modifying the content of the course, or … Continue reading
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Reflections on the Interactive Quizzes
During the last week of classes, I noticed that a number of students were doing the interactive quizzes to study for the final. How do I know this? Well, because several of them were taking quizzes they’d already received credit … Continue reading
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