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Title: | A multivariate evaluation of mainstream and academic development courses in first-year microeconomics |
Authors: | Smith, Leonard Edwards, Lawrence |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | South African Journal of Economics |
Volume: | 75 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 99-117 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | academic achievement economics education |
External link: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1813-6982.2007.00102.x/pdf |
Abstract: | This paper analyses the impact of the first-year academic development course in microeconomics offered by the University of Cape Town, South Africa, on student performance in examinations. The paper makes two advances to existing empirical literature in this area. Firstly, it compares performance with a control group drawn from the mainstream economics course. Secondly, it evaluates performance in subsequent courses in first-year macroeconomics and second-year microeconomics. The results suggest that the academic development course has a major impact on students' performance in the structured/essay questions, relative to the control group, in first and second-year microeconomics, and for the multiple-choice questions in first-year macroeconomics. Matriculation results, mathematics, English first language, physical science and gender are also important determinants of performance. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |