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Tani, Massimiliano; Manuguerra, Maurizio; Khan, Samia – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2022
We examine the effect of an innovation in an educational context, a class of 500 + first-year economics students at a well-known Australian university. We study whether introducing content in the form of a multimedia presentation has a detectable effect on specific categories of student knowledge. The multimedia presentation has a narrator…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Economics Education, Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials
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Sarah Yu – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
This paper presents a case study that reflects on teaching an economic unit, Cost-benefit analysis (CBA), to a diverse undergraduate student body at the researcher's institution. CBA is an applied economic technique that attempts to assess the economic efficiency of proposed public policies through the systematic prediction of social costs and…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Undergraduate Students, Economics Education, Performance
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Newton, Fiona J.; Wright, Jill D.; Newton, Joshua D. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
Plagiarism continues to be a concern within academic institutions. The current study utilised a randomised control trial of 137 new entry tertiary students to assess the efficacy of a scalable short training session on paraphrasing, patch writing and plagiarism. The results indicate that the training significantly enhanced students' overall…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Skill Development, Postsecondary Education, College Students