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Kuan-Fu Chen; Gwo-Jen Hwang; Mei-Rong Alice Chen – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
Laboratory courses can help students learn in a meaningful way. In the past, students encountered difficulties in chemistry laboratory courses due to limited access to equipment and space for practicing experimental operations. In recent years, virtual laboratories have allowed students to repeatedly practice in order to achieve their experimental…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Virtual Classrooms, Laboratories, Student Behavior
Levitt, Steven D.; List, John A.; Neckermann, Susanne; Sadoff, Sally – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
A long line of research on behavioral economics has established the importance of factors that are typically absent from the standard economic framework: reference dependent preferences, hyperbolic preferences, and the value placed on non-financial rewards. To date, these insights have had little impact on the way the educational system operates.…
Descriptors: Incentives, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Educational Change