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Significant numbers of people have very low levels of literacy in many OECD countries and, because of this, face significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching strategies are most useful for actually rectifying literacy deficiencies. The subject remains...
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Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess the effects of student and teacher characteristics on student achievement. We estimate value-added models of outcomes on multiple choice and essay exams, with matched classroom...
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, curriculum. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we compare changes in the labor market outcomes of graduate cohorts from … the affected faculty, before-and-after the curriculum revision, to changes in the labor market outcomes of graduate … cohorts from the other faculties. We do not find evidence that curriculum breadth matters for these labor market outcomes …
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This paper studies the consequences of a curriculum reform of the last two years of high school in one of the German …
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We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skills. A regression discontinuity design shows substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on...
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This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform that was introduced in one German state on high … school dropout. The reform increased the standards of the curriculum by reducing the freedom of choice in course selection …
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evidenced based health related quality of life (HRQoL) curriculum called Healthy Minds that ran in 34 high schools in England … emotional wellbeing. We find notable gender effects, strongly favouring boys. We also present evidence that Healthy Minds …
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This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform on students' probability to enroll at university …-in-differences model. The results show that the reform increased university enrollment rates for both gender. With regard to choosing STEM …
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new technologies faster into firms' workplaces. We study technology changes and curriculum updates from an early wave of … job advertisements), we use an event study design. Our results show that curriculum updates substantially shorten the time …
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In a previous paper, we have shown that academic rank is largely unrelated to tutorial teaching effectiveness. In this paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost as effective as senior instructors, and we produce...
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