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Download full textSchmidt, Susanne; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Shavelson, Richard J. – Frontline Learning Research, 2023
Quantitative reasoning is considered a crucial prerequisite for acquiring domain-specific expertise in higher education. To ascertain whether students are developing quantitative reasoning, validly assessing its development over the course of their studies is required. However, when measuring quantitative reasoning in an academic study program, it…
Descriptors: Business Education, Higher Education, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving
Direct linkHapp, Roland; Nagel, Marie-Theres; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Schmidt, Susanne – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
In this study, we examine the knowledge of students in a master program in business and economics and explore whether migration-specific influences can be determined. We tested the knowledge of 1,451 students from 40 universities in Germany in the content areas of accounting, finance, and microeconomics. Migration background had a significant…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education, Economics Education
Biewen, Martin; Happ, Roland; Schmidt, Susanne; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga – Higher Education Studies, 2018
In this study we examine the determinants of and the relationship among economic knowledge, epistemological beliefs, and extrinsic and intrinsic motivation over the course of undergraduate studies in a sample of students of business and economics at a university in Germany. We found economic knowledge increased over the course of studies,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Case Studies, Longitudinal Studies, Business
Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Schmidt, Susanne; Brückner, Sebastian; Förster, Manuel; Yamaoka, Michio; Asano, Tadayoshi – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
Recent trends towards harmonising and internationalising business and economics studies in higher education are affecting the structure and content of programmes and courses, and necessitate more transparent and comparable information on students' economic knowledge and skills. In this study, we examine by linear multilevel regression modelling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economics Education, Macroeconomics, Knowledge Level
Happ, Roland; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Schmidt, Susanne – Journal of Economic Education, 2016
In this article, the authors present the findings of a pretest-posttest measurement of the economic knowledge of students in introductory economics courses in undergraduate study programs in Germany. The responses of 403 students to 14 items selected from the "Test of Economic Literacy" (Soper and Walstad 1987) were analyzed to identify…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Introductory Courses, Economics Education, Pretests Posttests
Schmidt, Susanne; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Fox, Jean-Paul – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2016
Longitudinal research in higher education faces several challenges. Appropriate methods of analyzing competence growth of students are needed to deal with those challenges and thereby obtain valid results. In this article, a pretest-posttest-posttest multivariate multilevel IRT model for repeated measures is introduced which is designed to address…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pretests Posttests, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Item Response Theory
