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Tisha L. N. Emerson; KimMarie McGoldrick – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
Using data from 11 institutions, the authors investigate enrollments in intermediate microeconomics to determine characteristics of successful and unsuccessful students and follow the retake behavior of unsuccessful students. Successful students are significantly different from unsuccessful ones, and unsuccessful students differ by type…
Descriptors: Microeconomics, Student Attrition, Withdrawal (Education), Academic Persistence
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Patron, Hilde; Lopez, Salvador – Journal of Educators Online, 2011
This paper examines how student effort, consistency, motivation, and marginal learning, influence student grades in an online course. We use data from eleven Microeconomics courses taught online for a total of 212 students. Our findings show that consistency, or less time variation, is a statistically significant explanatory variable, whereas…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Microeconomics, Online Courses, Student Motivation