Current Projects

EENE is a new collaboration of instructors around the world that cooperate to run synchronized studies in their classrooms.

The AMS is an observational study of how academic mindset evolves during the term built on data from over 4,000 students in over 70 courses...

econ-assessments.org is a web site where economics instructors can set up standard online assessments for their students.

The Cornell Suite is a set of standard assessments that can be used by economics instructors to evaluate student learning in many economics courses.

We examine the retention of economics skills in the months and years after course completion.

We use experimental data to estimate the impact of two types of one-credit supplemental support courses on student performance in Introductory Microeconomics.

We analyze the determinants and consequences of intrinsic motivation using data from 27 economics courses.

How do students who went to high school during the COVID-19 pandemic fare in college economics courses compared to earlier cohorts?

We estimate causal effects of peers on effort and achievement using data on 382 students randomly assigned to 107 groups within three large undergraduate economics...

We study how Generative AI is used by students and instructors, and how it influences learning.

We use data collected in Spring 2020, Fall 2020, and Spring 2021 to determine how the learning of economics students was affected by perceived stress...

How did a multi-year initiative to embed active learning in Cornell’s undergraduate economics curriculum influence student outcomes, and to what extent have these effects persisted?

We estimate the impact of Cornell Economics undergraduate Course Assistant (CA) program on students and the CAs themselves.

The Dashboard is an interactive system that lets Cornell economics instructors interatively and graphically explore course assessment data.