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Experiment-Based Exams and the Difference Between the Behavioral and the Natural Sciences

In: Experimental Business Research

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  • Ido Erev

    (Technion)

  • Re’ut Livne-Tarandach

    (Technion)

Abstract

An analysis of exams used to evaluate college students highlights an important difference between the natural and the behavioral sciences. Most questions in the natural sciences ask the examinee to predict the results of particular experiments. On the other hand, nearly all questions in the behavioral sciences deal with abstract terms. The current analysis clarifies this difference, and proposes two related steps that can lessen the gap. The first steps involve the development of questions that focus on experiments that have been run. A field study suggests that the discrimination power of questions of this type is not lower than the discrimination power of theory-based questions. The second step requires some changes in the information collected by researchers and presented to students.

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  • Ido Erev & Re’ut Livne-Tarandach, 2005. "Experiment-Based Exams and the Difference Between the Behavioral and the Natural Sciences," Springer Books, in: Rami Zwick & Amnon Rapoport (ed.), Experimental Business Research, chapter 0, pages 297-308, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-0-387-24244-6_14
    DOI: 10.1007/0-387-24244-9_14
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