Rational Students and Resit Exams
Resit exams – extra opportunities to do an exam in the same academic year – are widely prevalent in European higher education, but uncommon in the US. I present a simple theoretical model to compare rational student behavior in the case of only one exam opportunity versus the case of two exam opportunities. Numerical examples for a wide range of plausible parameter values show that a second exam opportunity increases the ultimate passing probability only slightly, but strongly reduces average total student effort.
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| Length: | 11 pages |
| Date of creation: | Sep 2012 |
| Publication status: | published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 213-215 |
| Handle: | RePEc:iza:izadps:dp6832 |
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- De Paola, Maria & Scoppa, Vincenzo, 2011.
"Frequency of examinations and student achievement in a randomized experiment,"
Economics of Education Review,
Elsevier, vol. 30(6), pages 1416-1429.
- Maria De Poala & Vincenzo Scoppa, 2010. "Frequency Of Examinations And Student Achievement In A Randomized Experiment," Working Papers 201019, Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Finanza "Giovanni Anania" - DESF.
- Maria De Paola & Vincenzo Scoppa, 2011. "Frequency of examinations and student achievement in a randomized experiment," Framed Field Experiments 00394, The Field Experiments Website.
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