Blar i UiS Business school på emneord "utdanningsvitenskap"
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Beliefs about learning : Social background, gender, and classroom environment
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Background: Increasing students’ learning and their completion of high school has been a policy challenge for many years. This thesis investigates how the psychological mechanism of growth mindset is related to educational ... -
Disruptive innovation in the higher education sector : The case of the one planet MBA
(Chapter, 2023)In 2010 the MBA team at the University of Exeter in the UK faced a strategic challenge: how to differentiate and grow their MBA provision in a context in which there were major players with size, location and branding ... -
Economics of Education: Peer Effects and Mindset
(PhD thesis UiS;539, Doctoral thesis, 2020-09)In a world where technology is becoming ever more important, children’s best chance to thrive in school, and later, succeed in the labor market is by striving towards exploiting their full potential and acquire an applicable ... -
Essays on the Economics of Education : Policies for Academic Transitions
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-01)This doctoral thesis builds on a rich literature investigating how education policy affects students’ learning, motivation, investment, and decisionmaking— all of which are determinants of the productivity of education ... -
Human Capital Production in Childhood: Essays on the Economics of Education
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-05)The skills demanded in the labor market have changed (see, e.g., Acemoglu & Autor 2011).1 Just as technological innovations have increased demand for workers capable of performing non-routine and complex tasks, demand for ... -
Increasing perseverance in math: Evidence from a field experiment in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-12)Research by psychologists and economists demonstrates that many non-cognitive skillsare malleable in both children and adolescents, but we have limited knowledge on what schools can do to foster these skills. In a field ... -
An introspective essay on the virtues of teaching environmental economics to business students
(Chapter, 2023)The following is one of the stand-out memories from my early university life: It was the second semester of my undergraduate studies in the United States. I was sitting in the middle of a small classroom with about 15–20 ... -
Reducing the gender gap in early learning: Evidence from a field experiment in Norwegian preschools
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Substantial gender differences in key academic skills appear even before children start formal schooling. Although increasing investments in early-childhood programs is motivated by efforts to promote equality of opportunity ... -
Sustainability in the business school syllabus : mind the gap
(Chapter, 2023)This chapter concerns challenges that most professors in business schools experience when they are planning a new course, or revising an existing course, and in particular when the syllabus is highly suceptible to changes ... -
Taking the lead on leadership: reimagining the responsible business school of the future
(Chapter, 2023)Considering that the world’s oldest university in continuous operation – the University of Bologna – was established in 1088, business schools, historically, are a relatively new institution, as exemplified by the establishment ...