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Targeted Remedial Education : Experimental Evidence from Peru
Saavedra, Juan - 2017
An outstanding challenge in education is improving learning among low-achieving students. We present results from the first randomized experiment of an inquiry-based remedial science-education program for low-performing elementary students in the setting of a developing country. At 48 low-income...
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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2014
women's access to high-skill occupations outside teaching and to salary premiums for teachers …
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Instruction Time, Classroom Quality, and Academic Achievement
Rivkin, Steven G. - 2013
Many countries, American jurisdictions and charter schools have recently embraced longer school days or more time devoted to core academic classes. Recent research generally supports the notion that additional time raises achievement, though difficulties isolating an exogenous source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075429
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Does Classroom Time Matter? a Randomized Field Experiment of Hybrid and Traditional Lecture Formats in Economics
Joyce, Theodore - 2014
We test whether students in a hybrid format of introductory microeconomics, which met once per week, performed as well as students in a traditional lecture format of the same class, which met twice per week. We randomized 725 students at a large, urban public university into the two formats, and...
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Foreign-Born Teaching Assistants and the Academic Performance of Undergraduates
Borjas, George J. - 2021
complain that the lack of English language proficiency among many foreign-born Teaching Assistants affects adversely their … understanding of the material. This paper addresses the question that is at the heart of these complaints: Do foreign-born teaching … university. The data suggest that foreign-born Teaching Assistants have an adverse impact on the class performance of …
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