Decades of research has suggested that completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) can be a complex, difficult process postsecondary students and their support networks. However, no extant informed federal student aid practitioners researchers as to what jargon terms institutions higher education actually use in application instructions complete FAFSA. To fill this gap resea...

Learning and acting on social conventions is problematic for low-literates and non-natives, causing problems with societal participation and citizenship. Using the Situated Cognitive Engineering method, requirements for the design of social conventions learning software are derived from demographic information, adult learning frameworks and ICT learning principles. Evaluating a sample of existi...

We study a model in which heterogenous boundedly rational agents interact locally in order to play a coordination game. Agents di®er in their mobility with mobile agents being able to relocate within a country. The model yields the following predictions: (1) mobile agents always bene ̄t from increased mobility, (2) immobile agents bene ̄t from increased mobility at low levels of mobility, (3) imm...

We present a series of experimental coordination games with a payoff-dominant and a risk-dominant Nash equilibrium. We examine in how far local interaction structures have effects on players' strategy choices. Our three major observations are the following: first, local interaction with open neighborhoods along a circle leads to less coordination on the payoff-dominant equilibrium than interact...