Learner responsibility in management education, or ventures into forbidden research (with comments)

J. Scott Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania

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Postprint version. Published in Interfaces, Volume 13, Issue 2, April 1983, pages 26-38. The author has asserted his/her right to include this material in ScholarlyCommons@Penn.

Abstract

Formal education can be improved by transferring responsibility from the teacher to the learner. A simple approach to this is the time contract. Time contracts have been used successfully in nine quasi-experiments but, despite these successes, some educators see this as subversive research.