Grading Effects in Higher Education

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Abstract

I study the effects of having marginally higher or lower initial academic grades on Masters students’ further academic achievement. I build a behavioral economics model of student’s choice of study effort that predicts motivational effects of higher initial grades on further learning outcomes for some students. I introduce an anonymous university data set and use it to discover empirical patterns in grading effects.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages19
Publication statusPublished - 30 Sept 2016
EventFourth Lisbon Research Workshop on Economics, Statistics and Econometrics of Education
- Lissabon, Portugal
Duration: 23 Jan 201724 Jan 2017

Workshop

WorkshopFourth Lisbon Research Workshop on Economics, Statistics and Econometrics of Education
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLissabon
Period23/01/1724/01/17

JEL classifications

  • i20 - Education and Research Institutions: General
  • i21 - Analysis of Education
  • i23 - Higher Education and Research Institutions

Keywords

  • academic grading
  • university data set
  • student motivation

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