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Title: | An analysis of the impact of pedagogic interventions in first-year academic development and mainstream courses in microeconomics |
Author: | Smith, Leonard C. |
Year: | 2009 |
Periodical: | South African Journal of Economics |
Volume: | 77 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 162-178 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | academic achievement higher education economics education |
External link: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1813-6982.2009.01195.x/pdf |
Abstract: | This paper analyses the impact of pedagogic interventions in first-year academic development and mainstream courses in microeconomics on students' performance in the final examination in South Africa. The data for six cohorts, covering the years 1999 and 2001-2005, are pooled, and the Heckman (1979) two-part procedure is used to account for those students who started the course but did not write the final examination. The results suggest that the pedagogic interventions have a positive impact on the performance of academic development students relative to the mainstream cohort and on the performance of mainstream students. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |