Relación entre las calificaciones en la evaluación continua y en el examen final: Diferencias por género, nivel socio-económico y conocimientos iniciales (código 4137)

• Autores: Pedro Albarrán Pérez, Marianna Battaglia, Marcello Sartarelli, Sarai Vera Rodríguez, José Vicente-Pérez
• Localización: Memorias del Programa de Redes-I3CE de calidad, innovación e investigación en docencia universitaria: Convocatoria 2017-18 / coord. por Rosabel Roig Vila, 2018, ISBN 978-84-09-07041-1, págs. 1955-1974
• Idioma: español
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  • We study the effect of a nudge in achievement in a midterm test on subsequent performance in Math by using administrative and survey data from students at the University of Alicante. We estimate the effect through a regression discontinuity design since only students obtaining a midterm score greater than or equal to 5 may interpret their score positively. The sign of the effect is unclear ex-ante as a nudge may induce students to believe that additional study effort is (un)important to ensure a pass in course. We find that the overall effect is small and not significant. We do not find differences by gender or socioeconomic status; some differences might exist in students who majored in Arts and Humanities, whose initial knowledge in Math is lower, but a rigorous conclusion cannot be drawn. However, our results point out that the nudge effect is heterogeneous by students’ confidence: a nudge for non-confident students leads to lower performance in subsequent assessment, while confident students, although reacting positively with respect to non-confident ones, do not change their performance. Our results shed light on the role of confidence in processing salient although noisy information on achievement and its consequences on subsequent performance.