Data and Code For: Competition, Motivation and Student Engagment

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Amanda Felkey, Lake Forest College; Eva Dziadula, University of Notre Dame; Eric Chiang, Florida Atlantic University

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Project Citation:

Felkey, Amanda, Dziadula, Eva, and Chiang, Eric . Data and Code For: Competition, Motivation and Student Engagment. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-04-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/E189681V1

Project Description

Summary:

We consider the gamification aspect of a technology that delivers small daily tasks to students to analyze how competition motivates engagement. We randomly assigned 400 students into teams of up to ten, who compete by committing to the daily task and then acknowledging their completion later in the day. Using data collected from the leaderboard, we test whether student engagement with respect to competition varies systematically by gender and by the level of anonymity. Not surprisingly, being ranked in the top three is highly motivating. However, among lower-ranked students, male students tend to disengage when usernames are not anonymous.

The code in this replication package generates the data and runs the analyses for the 3 tables in the paper. The replicator should expect the code to run for a few moments.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
A20 Economic Education and Teaching of Economics: General

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