Ben's
Research
Ben Smith
of the
University
of
Nebraska
at
Omaha
Non-Pedagogical Papers
Changing It Up: Determining the Nash Equilibria for MLB pitchers
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Beauty in the Eyes of the Beholder
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Assessing Proxies of Knowledge and Difficulty with Rubric-Based Instruments
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Python Package
Path Dependence as a Path to Consumer Surplus and Loyalty
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Distributional Properties of the Statistic of Online Student Evaluations: the mean does not mean what you think it means
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On Guessing: An Alternative Adjusted Positive Learning Estimator and Comparing Probability Misspecification with Monte Carlo Simulations
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Let Them Tweet Cake: Estimating Public Dissent Using Twitter
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How Often Does Active Learning Actually Occur? Perception vs. Reality
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Improving Student Performance Through Loss Aversion
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Adjusting for Guessing and Applying a Statistical Test to the Disaggregation of Value-added Learning Scores
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Estimating State-Industry Employment, with an Application to Industrial Localization
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Improved Grade Outcomes with an E-mailed 'Grade Nudge'
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Short vs. Long: Cognitive Load, Retention and Changing Class Structures
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Giving Away the Store: How the zero price constraint results in fewer add-on features
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A Practitioner's Guide to Testing Regional Industrial Localization
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Software Builds
Low-cost, Transportable Hydrogen Fueling Station for Early Market Adoption of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles
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Simulating Confidence for the Ellison-Glaeser Index
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Simulation Software
Pundits — The Confidence Trick: Better Confident than Right?
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Pedagogical Papers
Music 4 Econ
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Economics of Star Wars
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Assessment disaggregation: A new tool to calculate learning types from nearly any exam platform, including online systems
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Website & Software
Create Random Assignments: A Cloud-based Tool to Help Implement Alternative Teaching Materials
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Website & Software
Lesson Plans for Teaching Economics with The Big Bang Theory
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Multiplatform Software Tool to Disaggregate and Adjust Value-added Learning Scores
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Website & Software
Bazinganomics: Economics of The Big Bang Theory
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Teaching Software
Assessment Disaggregation
A software program that helps you measure learning using standard exam files.
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Project Based Assessment
Software that helps you measure knowledge and rubric difficulty based on rubric-based instruments
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Grade Nudge
A tool to notify students of grade outcomes on every assignment.
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G. Drive App
Create Random Assignments
A tool to generate homeworks unique to each student.
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G. Drive App
Automated Warning System
Early warning system that periodically extracts grades from Canvas for all high risk courses within a college, notifies academic advisors, and informs students of their current standing.
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