The article presents first results of the Monitoring of educational and labor trajectories of high school and university graduates. This project has been launched by HSE in 2009. The research group has conducted surveys among university students in their last year studies in two regions of...

Yuliya Tyumeneva, Ph.D. in Psychology, senior researcher at the Center for Monitoring Educational Quality, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: jutu@yandex.ru Yuliya Kuzmina, analyst at the Center for Monitoring Educational Quality,...

The authors estimate contribution of different factors in reading skills of 15?year-olds by using four models of multilevel regression analysis. It turned out that the most significant factor is family background - not only at the individual level, but at the school level as well (average school...

Previous work has already established the reliability and validity of the Grit scale, based on the classical test theory (Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, & Kelly, 2007). This study tests the psychometric properties and the dimensionality of the scale by employing an IRT analysis of data collected...

There is currently a large body of literature about applying knowledge gained in class to real-life situations. However, comparatively little is known about how a student’s mastery of the material affects his or her ability to transfer this knowledge to unfamiliar settings. Our research seeks...

The advantage of Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study is that not only does it perform a direct cognitive assessment of students concerning these students' teachers, but also their education, work experience and the instructional strategies used in their classes. In order to...

Yuliya Tyumeneva, Psy.D., senior researcher at the Center for Monitoring Educational Quality, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: jtiumeneva@hse.ru Tatyana Khavenson, junior researcher at the International Laboratory for Education Policy...

Yuliya Tyumeneva, Psy.D., senior researcher at the Center for Monitoring Educational Quality, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: jutu@yandex.ru Anisya Yaremenko, M.A. in Psychology, intern researcher at the International Laboratory for...

Yulia Tyumeneva - Candidate of Sciences, Senior Research Fellow at The International Laboratory for Education Policy Analysis at the HSE Graduate School of Education, HSE. E-mail: jtumeneva@hse.ruAlena Valdman - intern-researcher at The International Laboratory for Educational Policy Analysis at...

We study barriers to labour mobility using panel data on gross region-to-region migration flows in Russia in 1996-2010. Using both parametric and semiparametric methods and controlling for region-to-region pairwise fixed effects, we find a non-monotonic relationship between income and migration....