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Trial Status
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in_development
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on_going
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Abstract
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Students form beliefs about their expected performance in a course based on incomplete information. This may cause students to make sub-optimal effort decisions and ultimately negatively impact their performance. In this study, we examine the impact of providing students with complete information
about their likelihood of success in a course. Using a field experiment, we study how such an intervention affects students' effort, attendance and academic performance.
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Students form beliefs about their expected performance in a course based on incomplete information. This may cause students to make sub-optimal effort decisions and ultimately negatively impact their performance. In this study, we examine the impact of providing students with complete information about their likelihood of success in a course. Using a field experiment, we study how such an intervention affects students' effort, attendance and academic performance.
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Last Published
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September 08, 2020 09:39 AM
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January 27, 2021 12:09 PM
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Intervention Start Date
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January 01, 2021
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August 28, 2020
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Experimental Design (Public)
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We will randomly assign students into two groups - treatment and control.
Control group will fill the same set of incentivized baseline, midline and endline surveys as the treatment group. The only difference will be that the treatment group will be revealed the information about past grade distribution.
The assignment of students to the two groups will happen randomly and individually. They'll be assigned to their respective groups in the early days of the course using a random device,. The assignment, however, will not be conducted before the drop-out date has passed. This will prevent any spill-overs by students switching between classes as a result of our intervention.
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We will randomly assign students into two groups - treatment and control.
Control group will fill the same set of incentivized baseline and endline surveys as the treatment group. The only difference will be that the treatment group will be revealed the information about past grade distribution.
The assignment of students to the two groups will happen randomly and individually. They'll be assigned to their respective groups in the early days of the course using a random device,. The assignment, however, will not be conducted before the drop-out date has passed. This will prevent any spill-overs by students switching between classes as a result of our intervention.
We plan to collect past assessment scores and other relevant student related demographic information. A risk-aversion question to elicit a measure of their risk-attitudes is also included in the baseline survey.
The incentive used to make students participate in the experiment is an extra credit (or a part of an extra credit ) in the course. That extra credit will be uniform for the entire class and will be directly proportional to the percent of students from the class participating in the experiment. However, the extra credit awarded will be given to all students, regardless of their participation status.
The pilot started in the Fall semester 2020 (3 classrooms, 133 students) and the project continues in Spring 2021 (7 classrooms, 261 students).
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Randomization Unit
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Individual level randomization at the initial stage to assign students into treatment and control groups. At a later stage, we will randomly also send reminders to about half the treated students to study whether reminder have any additional effect on the outcome variables.
We will do stratified randomization where each classroom will act as a strata/block within which we will randomize students.
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Individual level randomization at the initial stage to assign students into treatment and control groups. We will do stratified randomization where each classroom will act as a strata/block within which we will randomize students.
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Planned Number of Clusters
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18 classrooms
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10 classrooms (over two semesters)
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Planned Number of Observations
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1400
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394 students
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Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
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700 students in control and 700 students in treatment
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Roughly same number of students in each group
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