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Aaron Phipps
Does Monitoring Change Teacher Pedagogy and Student Outcomes?
Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentIn theory, monitoring can improve employee motivation and effort, particularly in settings lacking measurable outputs, but research assessing monitoring as a motivator is limited to laboratory settings. To address this gap, I leverage exogenous variation in the presence and intensity of teacher… more →
Are Students Time Constrained? Course Load, GPA, and Failing
Tags: Higher education, MotivationGiven the simultaneous rise in time-to-graduation and college GPA, it may be that students reduce their course load to improve their performance. Yet, evidence to date only shows increased course loads increase GPA. We provide a mathematical model showing many unobservable factors -- beyond… more →