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Learner Responsibility in Management Education, or Ventures into Forbidden Research (with Comments)

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J. S. Armstrong (The Wharton School)

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Formal education can be improved by transferring responsibility from the teacher to the learner. A simple approach to this is the time contract. Time contracts have been used successfully in nine quasi-experiments but, despite these successes, some educators see this as subversive research.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series General Economics and Teaching with number 0502012.

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Date of creation: 04 Feb 2005
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Keywords: learning; universities; teachers;

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  1. JS Armstrong, 2005. "Research on Scientific Journals: Implications for Editors and Authors," General Economics and Teaching 0502059, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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  1. J. S. Armstrong, 2005. "The Devil<92>s Advocate Responds to an MBA Student<92>s Claim that Research Harms Learning," General Economics and Teaching 0502008, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
  2. J.S. Armstrong, 2005. "Are Student Ratings of Instruction Useful?," General Economics and Teaching 0502007, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
  3. JS Armstrong, 2004. "The Case for Minimum Teaching Standards," General Economics and Teaching 0412019, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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