AN ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF PEDAGOGIC INTERVENTIONS IN FIRST‐YEAR ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT AND MAINSTREAM COURSES IN MICROECONOMICS

Leonard C. Smith

South African Journal of Economics, 2009, vol. 77, issue 1, 162-178

Abstract: This paper analyses the impact of pedagogic interventions in first‐year academic development and mainstream courses in microeconomics on students' performance in the final examination. The data for six cohorts, covering the years 1999 and 2001‐2005, are pooled, and the Heckman two‐part procedure is used to account for those students who started the course but did not write the final examination. The results suggest that the pedagogic interventions have a positive impact on the performance of academic development students relative to the mainstream cohort and on the performance of mainstream students.

Date: 2009
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