| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
|
| 规范类型 | 论文
|
| 来源ID | DP12508
|
| DP12508 Ordering History Through the Timeline |
| Pietro Garibaldi
|
| 发表日期 | 2017-12-14
|
| 出版年 | 2017
|
| 语种 | 英语
|
| 摘要 | History is a key subject in most educational system in Western countries, and there is ongoing concern about the the degree of historical knowledge and historical sensibility that students obtain after their high school graduation. This paper proposes a simple linetime test for quantitatively measuring a human sense of history. The paper reports the results of the test administered to approximately 250 Italian university students. There are two empirical results. First, students have remarkable difficulties in ordering basic events over the time line, with the largest mistakes observed around the events that took place in the Middle Age. Second, the paper uncovers a statistical regularity in the test performance across gender, with female subjects featuring a statistical significant and quantitatively sizable downward score. The gender difference is surprising, since existing literature on differences in cognitive abilities across gender suggests that female subjects outperform male subjects in memory related tests. The paper shows also that the gender difference survives to a variety of sub periods, and falls by only 20 percent when we distinguish between violent and non violent events. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics
; Public Economics
|
| 关键词 | Sense of time
Gender difference
|
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp12508
|
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
|
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
|
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541319
|
推荐引用方式
GB/T 7714 |
Pietro Garibaldi. DP12508 Ordering History Through the Timeline. 2017.
|
除非特别说明，本系统中所有内容都受版权保护，并保留所有权利。
