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Roth, Kimberly A. – PRIMUS, 2012
The combination of classroom voting system (clicker) questions and peer instruction has been shown to increase student learning. While implementations in large lectures have been around for a while, mathematics has been increasingly using clickers in classes of a smaller size. In Fall 2008, I conducted an experiment to measure the effect of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Calculus, Handheld Devices, Classroom Environment
Olken, Benjamin A.; Onishi, Junko; Wong, Susan – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
This paper reports an experiment in over 3,000 Indonesian villages designed to test the role of performance incentives in improving the efficacy of aid programs. Villages in a randomly-chosen one-third of subdistricts received a block grant to improve 12 maternal and child health and education indicators, with the size of the subsequent year's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Incentives, Rural Areas