Relative Performance Feedback and Long-Term Tasks – Experimental Evidence from Higher Education

  • We present first experimental evidence that relative performance feedback improves both the speed and quality with which challenging long-term tasks are completed. Providing university students with ongoing relative feedback on accumulated course credits accelerates graduation by 0.12 SD, and also improves grades by 0.063 SD. Treatment effects are concentrated among students with medium pre-treatment graduation probabilities: when these students are informed about an above-average performance, their outcomes improve – otherwise their outcomes deteriorate. Combined with survey evidence, this pattern of results suggests that learning about own ability is a plausible mechanism.

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Author:Raphael Brade, Oliver Himmler, Robert JäckleORCiD
URL / DOI:https://www.cesifo.org/en/publications/2023/working-paper/relative-performance-feedback-and-long-term-tasks-experimental
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Date of first Publication:2023/03/24
Release Date:2024/11/28
Tag:higher education; natural field experiment; rank; relative performance feedback
Andere Schriftenreihe:CESifo Working Papers
institutes:Fakultät Betriebswirtschaft
Research Themes:Soziale & ökonomische Transformation
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