What Did You Get? Peers, Information, and Student Exam Performance

Lauren Ratliff Santoro () and Jonas B. Bunte ()
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Lauren Ratliff Santoro: The University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Political Science
Jonas B. Bunte: Vienna University of Economics and Business, Institute for International Political Economy

Research in Higher Education, 2023, vol. 64, issue 3, No 4, 423-450

Abstract: Abstract When students are aware of the exam grades of their peers, does this information affect their subsequent exam performance? For example, knowing that my friend scored a higher grade on Exam 1 than myself might motivate me to improve my performance on Exam 2, or might frustrate me such that I stop trying to catch up. We analyze whether students’ performance is shaped by the grades of their classmates. To answer this question, we use survey-based data on students’ connections to other students with the grades that students obtained in a class. We find that a peer effect on grades does exist, where students who know that the grades of their friends were higher than their own on the first exam are motivated to improve their score on the following exam.

Keywords: Peer effect; Grades; Network analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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