“We find that the shock of having acne is positively associated with overall grade point average in high school, grades in high-school English, history, math, and science, and the completion of a college degree.“ – explain Professor Hugo Mialon (Emory University) and Professor Erik Nesson (Ball State University) who are the authors of a new study […]
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Discovery: Students Who Do Homework Get Higher Grades
A proud press release from East Carolina University announces: Department of Economics professor Dr. Nick Rupp, who counts education tactics among his research interests, recently published the results of a study in which he found that doing homework assignments leads to higher test grades. “There’s always been anecdotal evidence,” he explained, “but I wanted to […]
Students affected by hints of their demise
Yet another entry to our “Scientists Now Know” collection: When students take a test, if the test booklet (or whatever) already seems to indicate that the student will be given a bad grade the student tends to perform poorly. And if the test booklet hints that the student will be given a good grade, the […]
Studying affects grades, maybe
Does studying affect grades? Ralph and Todd Stinebrickner published what they say is the first persuasive evidence that it does. In their words, there is a “causal effect of studying on grade performance”…. People assume blithely that studying affects grades. The Stinebrickners say that there was never any real proof. They tell how others had […]