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'Teaching to Teach' Literacy
Machin, Stephen - 2016
significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching strategies are most useful for actually … function that affects the technology of teaching. In particular, there was phasing in of intensive support to some schools … intensive support to estimate the effect of the new 'teaching technology' on children's educational attainment. We find there to …
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Returns to Teaching Repetition – the Effect of Short-Term Teaching Experience on Student Outcomes
Cuffe, Harold E. - 2019
Teachers often deliver the same lesson multiple times in one day. In contrast to year-to-year teaching experience, it … is unclear how this teaching repetition affects student outcomes. We examine the effects of teaching repetition in a … of positive effects on teaching evaluations. These results suggest that teaching repetition is a powerful tool to reduce …
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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions : An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - 2021
This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one location...
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Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read : A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines
Abeberese, Ama Baafra - 2011
We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly increases the propensity of children to read, causing...
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Mind, Behaviour and Health : A Randomised Experiment
Alem, Yonas - 2016
Behavioural attitudes towards risk and time, as well as behavioural biases such as present bias, are thought to be important drivers of unhealthy lifestyle choices. This paper makes the first attempt to explore the possibility of training the mind to alter these attitudes and biases, and...
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How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores?
Behncke, Stefanie - 2009
This paper investigates the extent to which test performance is affected by shocks to non-cognitive skills. 440 students took a low stakes mathematics test. About half of them were exposed to positive affirmation while being given test instructions, whereas the other half served as controls. The...
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Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment : Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra
Cortes, Kalena E. - 2014
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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The Timing of Instruction Time : Accumulated Hours, Timing and Pupil Achievement
Bingley, Paul - 2018
Instruction time varies among schools, subjects, pupils and grades. This variation is positively associated with test scores and has been used to identify modest positive causal effects for instruction hours in certain grades. We exploit administrative data on delivered and timetabled...
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Is There a Causal Effect of High School Math on Labor Market Outcomes?
Joensen, Juanna Schrøter - 2008
Outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries has increased the focus on the accumulation of skills - such as Math skills - in high-wage countries. In this paper, we exploit a high school pilot scheme to identify the causal effect of advanced high school Math on labor market outcomes. The pilot...
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If (My) 6 Was (Your) 9 : Reporting Heterogeneity in Student Evaluations of Teaching
Bertoni, Marco - 2020
Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) are subjective measures of student satisfaction that are often used to assess … teaching quality. In this paper, we show that heterogeneity in students' reporting styles challenges SET validity. Using …
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