Ben's Research
Ben Smith of the University
of Nebraska at Omaha
of Nebraska at Omaha
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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?
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
On Guessing: An Alternative Adjusted Positive Learning Estimator and Comparing Probability Misspecification with Monte Carlo Simulations
Network Externalities and Friendly Neighbors: When Firms Choose to Invite Competition
A Path To Consumer Surplus & Loyalty: How Path Dependent Products Result in Lower Prices and
Order-Dependent Consumer Loyalty
Create Random Assignments
A tool to generate homeworks unique to each student.
Create Group Projects
Tool to generate group project work spaces for each team in a class.
Remove Permissions
Removes all permissions (except your own) on every file and folder that you own within the selected Google Drive folder.
Assessment Disaggregation
A tool to disaggregate pre- and post-test responses into value-added learning scores and adjust them for guessing.
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.