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題名 Reply: Does Downloading PowerPoint Slides Before the Lecture Lead to Better Student Achievement?
作者 陳鎮洲
Chen, Jennjou
Lin, Tsui‐Fang
貢獻者 經濟系
日期 2011-05
上傳時間 18-Dec-2018 18:10:33 (UTC+8)
摘要 This reply responds to a comment by Cannon (2011) that opens the debate on consistency of the effect of downloading PowerPoint slides before lectures on students’ exam performance. Cannon (2011) points out potential endogeneity problems in Chen and Lin (2008) and attempts to explore the unconditional mean effect of downloading PowerPoint slides for the full sample. In this reply, we firstly argue that the estimates in our original article are consistent since the effect of interest is the “conditional” treatment effect but not the unconditional mean effect. We provide explanations for our rationale of estimating the “conditional” treatment effect. Secondly, we propose a modified downloading variable to replicate Cannon’s analysis. Our results suggest that downloading PowerPoint slides before the exam does not produce a significant effect on absent students’ exam performance which is different from the results in Cannon (2011). Our analysis does support Cannon’s argument that students fixed effects are different across different attendance status.
關聯 International Review of Economics Education, Vol.10, No.1, pp.90-93
資料類型 article
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/S1477-3880(15)30038-4
dc.contributor 經濟系
dc.creator (作者) 陳鎮洲zh_TW
dc.creator (作者) Chen, Jennjouen_US
dc.creator (作者) Lin, Tsui‐Fangen_US
dc.date (日期) 2011-05
dc.date.accessioned 18-Dec-2018 18:10:33 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 18-Dec-2018 18:10:33 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 18-Dec-2018 18:10:33 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/121432-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) This reply responds to a comment by Cannon (2011) that opens the debate on consistency of the effect of downloading PowerPoint slides before lectures on students’ exam performance. Cannon (2011) points out potential endogeneity problems in Chen and Lin (2008) and attempts to explore the unconditional mean effect of downloading PowerPoint slides for the full sample. In this reply, we firstly argue that the estimates in our original article are consistent since the effect of interest is the “conditional” treatment effect but not the unconditional mean effect. We provide explanations for our rationale of estimating the “conditional” treatment effect. Secondly, we propose a modified downloading variable to replicate Cannon’s analysis. Our results suggest that downloading PowerPoint slides before the exam does not produce a significant effect on absent students’ exam performance which is different from the results in Cannon (2011). Our analysis does support Cannon’s argument that students fixed effects are different across different attendance status.en_US
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dc.relation (關聯) International Review of Economics Education, Vol.10, No.1, pp.90-93
dc.title (題名) Reply: Does Downloading PowerPoint Slides Before the Lecture Lead to Better Student Achievement?en_US
dc.type (資料類型) article
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1016/S1477-3880(15)30038-4
dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.1016/S1477-3880(15)30038-4