CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Kiss, Andrea |
|---|---|
| Title | The effect of monitoring on productivity: experimental evidence from elementary schools |
| Summary | This thesis studies the effect of monitoring on students' outcomes in an experimental setting. During the experiment 270 primary school children were asked to solve mazes in different environments. Four types of treatments were examined, which differed in their intensity and the monitoring agent. The research has three main findings: 1) the presence of an authority, i.e. the teacher, has a significant positive effect on scores and reduces the number of mistakes; 2) girls are more mistake-prone and slower than boys in an intensive monitoring environment, perhaps due to the higher stress of this situation; 3) neighbors have a positive effect on each other's score when the teacher is not present. |
| Supervisor | Szeidl, Adam |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/kiss_andrea.pdf |
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