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The short-term effectiveness of a remedial mathematics course: Evidence from a UK university

Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2012

Whilst in the US there is a growing debate about the effectiveness of remedial university courses, this issue is less questioned in the UK. Using a regression discontinuity approach and data from a large School of a post-1992 UK university, we estimate the effect of remediation on student...

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The Short-Term Effectiveness of a Remedial Mathematics Course: Evidence from a UK University

Di Pietro, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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The Effects of Remedial Mathematics on the Learning of Economics: A Natural Experiment

Lagerlöf, Johan N.M.; Seltzer, Andrew J. - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London - 2007

This paper examines the effects of remedial mathematics on performance in university-level economics courses using a … natural experiment. We study exam results prior and subsequent to the implementation of a remedial mathematics course that was … students’ performance at university-level economics. However, the evidence for a positive effect of remedial mathematics on …

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