Do Teaching Practices Matter for Cooperation?

Syngjoo Choi, Booyuel Kim (), Minseon Park () and Yoonsoo Park ()

Working Paper Series from Institute of Economic Research, Seoul National University

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of a student-centered teaching pedagogy program on cooperative behaviors of 610 students in five middle schools. We combine the school- level program of changing teaching practice with laboratory experiments, implemented before and after the program, measuring changes of students¡¯ cooperation. We show that the program increased students¡¯ voluntary contributions in a linear public goods experiment and raised teamwork performance in a real-effort task where members pursue a common interest. Our findings support the idea that teaching practices stimulating interpersonal interaction among students affect the formation of cooperative norms among students.

Keywords: teaching practices; project-based learning; cooperation; field experiment; laboratory experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 C92 C93 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-exp, nep-hrm, nep-ore and nep-ure
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