BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:39264ed3d7c659b4f38a20025b523192 CATEGORIES:Lecture / Reading / Talk CREATED:20211120T121114 SUMMARY:Live Webinar: "Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments" by David Gill, Purdue University LOCATION:Aaryabhatta 001 DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) Nuffield - FLAME Uni versity is pleased to invite you to a live webinar from Nuffield College, U niversity of Oxford. David Gill, Associate Professor of Economics at Purdue University will be presenting his work titled "Using Goals to Motivate Col lege Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments." The abstract of his talk is as follows: "Will college students who set goals for themselve s work harder and perform better? In theory, setting goals can help time-in consistent students mitigate their self-control problem. In practice, there is little credible evidence on the causal effects of goal setting for coll ege students. We report the results of two field experiments that involved almost four thousand college students in total. One experiment asked treate d students to set goals for performance in the course; the other asked trea ted students to set goals for a particular task (completing online practice exams). We find that performance-based goals had no discernible impact on course performance. In contrast, task-based goals had large and robust posi tive effects on the level of task completion, and task-based goals also inc reased course performance. Further empirical analysis indicates that the in crease in task completion induced by setting task-based goals caused the in crease in course performance."\n\n\nYou can learn more about Prof. Gill's w ork here.\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) Nuffield - FLA ME University is pleased to invite you to a live webinar from Nuffield Coll ege, University of Oxford. David Gill, Associate Professor of Economics at Purdue University will be presenting his work titled "Using Goals to Motiva te College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments." The abstr act of his talk is as follows: "Will college students who set goals for the mselves work harder and perform better? In theory, setting goals can help t ime-inconsistent students mitigate their self-control problem. In practice, there is little credible evidence on the causal effects of goal setting fo r college students. We report the results of two field experiments that inv olved almost four thousand college students in total. One experiment asked treated students to set goals for performance in the course; the other aske d treated students to set goals for a particular task (completing online pr actice exams). We find that performance-based goals had no discernible impa ct on course performance. In contrast, task-based goals had large and robus t positive effects on the level of task completion, and task-based goals al so increased course performance. Further empirical analysis indicates that the increase in task completion induced by setting task-based goals caused the increase in course performance."


You can learn more about Prof. Gill's work here.
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