Should You Compete or Cooperate with Your Schoolmates?

Autor/inn/en	Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio
Titel	Should You Compete or Cooperate with Your Schoolmates?
Quelle	In: Education Economics, 19 (2011) 3, S.275-289 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0964-5292
Schlagwörter	Foreign Students; Foreign Countries; Mathematics Achievement; Numeracy; Global Approach; Correlation; Scores; Evidence; Cooperation; Competition; Student Attitudes; Role; Secondary School Mathematics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Rechenkompetenz; Globales Denken; Korrelation; Evidenz; Co-operation; Kooperation; Wettkampf; Schülerverhalten; Rollen
Abstract	This paper presents empirical evidence from the Programme for International Student Assessment 2003 survey on the role of students' attitudes towards competition and cooperation in mathematical literacy achievement. While individual competitive attitudes are positively correlated with test scores, the reverse occurs when considering the aggregation of individual attitudes. Similarly, while individual cooperative attitudes exhibit a negative correlation with test scores, the opposite is true in the aggregate. We provide an interpretation of this "fallacy of composition" based on public good production and incentives to free riding, which is prevented by social norms held valid in a small or homogenous group. (Contains 16 notes, 3 tables, and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10