Question for teachers: How do you nudge students to work harder?
High school English teacher and reader Nate Stearns poses three questions to Nudge blog readers: Would struggling students work harder if they were placed in a classroom with hard-working students?...
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The strange power of the free test score report
Amanda Pallais, a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is currently working on research about how small changes in how test score reports are sent to colleges can...
View ArticleA reader comes up with an ascetic nudge to help him get into college
Courtesy of Felipe Insunza, an economics student at São Paulo University in Brazil. To be admitted to any Brazilian university, especially one of high quality, students must pass a difficult exam that...
View ArticleA parent's nudge for her daughter's study habits
Reader Dawn Jacksland has created a nudge to make sure her daughter does her homework. In order to help our teenage daughter remember to do homework before computer time, we add a login to her password...
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Assorted links
1) A classroom nudge for college professors. Include one lie in each lecture and ask students to point out the error. They’ll pay attention to the material more closely. Hat tip: David de Souza 2)...
View ArticleNudge in the classroom: A blueprint for teaching
Political scientist Dana Griffin turned Nudge into an innovative course at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In the latest issue of PS, she writes about the experience in a piece titled “Nudging...
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