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