 Online or on-campus? Analysing the effects of financial education on student knowledge gainTommaso Agasisti, Emilio Barucci, Marta Cannistrà, Daniele Marazzina and Mara Soncin Evaluation and Program Planning, 2023, vol. 98, issue C Abstract: This paper describes the results of an experiment conducted in a technical university in Italy in 2019, involving the implementation and evaluation of an innovative short course on financial education. The programme applied a novel approach based on online learning and its effectiveness is compared against the effects of a traditional on-campus lecture, within an experimental setting. The findings indicate that the programme is effective: one week after taking the course, the students improved their pre-course test scores by about 4 points out of 10. No statistically significant difference in gains is found between students assigned to the online vs the on-campus mode of learning, suggesting a potential positive role of digital learning in this specific setting. An exploratory analysis of factors associated with the outcome reveal that the course has been particularly beneficial for those students initially less interested in finance. Keywords: Financial education; Experimental evaluation; Financial literacy; Online learning in Higher Education; Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:epplan:v:98:y:2023:i:c:s0149718923000502 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2023.102273 Access Statistics for this article Evaluation and Program Planning is currently edited by Jonathan A. Morell More articles in Evaluation and Program Planning from Elsevier |
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