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.
Introduction to SQL
Handout explaining the basics of the SQL language (intended for data scientists)
Python for Economists
Four period class teaching Python programming from computer fundamentals to SciPy