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The teaching experience I’m proudest of was an undergraduate Econometrics course where I was instructor of record for about 65 students. Historically, the course had a 30–35% rate of students earning C or below. I shifted one unit to a “flipped lab” model: students watched 15-minute videos on OLS and diagnostics before class, and we used the full 75 minutes for hands-on R exercises in small groups. To make it concrete, each group had to replicate a short published table and then design one additional robustness check. I walked around, asked probing questions, and had them present their added specification in the final 15 minutes. On the midterm module questions, average scores on econometric interpretation improved by roughly 18 percentage points versus the prior year, and the C-or-below rate for that cohort dropped to 12%.
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