2008 — 2009 Research Honors Program

Ubiquitous laptop usage in higher education: Effects on student achievement, student satisfaction, and constructivist measures in honors and traditional classrooms

Three years of graduating business honors cohorts in a large urban university were sampled to determine whether the introduction of ubiquitous laptop computers into the honors program contributed to student achievement, student satisfaction and constructivist teaching activities. The first year cohort consisted of honors students who did not have laptops; the second and third year cohorts were ...

The Impact of Honors Programs on Undergraduate Academic Performance, Retention, and Graduation

This study examines the academic performance, retention, and degree-completion rates of two groups of honors students, those who completed all their honors program requirements (honors completers; n = 30) versus those students who started off in honors programs but did not complete these program requirements (partial honors students; n = 82). These two sets of honors students are then compared ...

Faith & Reason Honors Program

What Honors Students Want (And Expect): The Views of Top Michigan High School and College Students

Often missing in an overall assessment of honors is a broad, comparative analysis of what top academic students want and expect from college and more particularly from an honors experience. Limited case studies or theoretical research articles analyzing how honors students think or perform may overlook or undervalue this important voice in the honors discourse. This article, although in some re...

Stigma, Fear and Hope: A Model of HIV Testing in Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper investigates the degree to which reductions in the price of HIV treatment affect the demand for HIV testing in Sub-Saharan Africa. First, I derive a theoretical model that predicts when an individual will test for HIV, given uncertainty about their health status. I then analyze the assumptions and predictions of the model using data from DHS, UNAIDS, WHO and the Center for Health Pol...