In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies … whether parents or teachers assess students potential educational performance more adequately. Educational attainment is …. The reform replaced parents choice about their children s secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our …

The effect of school closures and distance learning during the COVID19 pandemic on student achievement is still the … subject of discussion. After the end of the pandemic-related restrictions, learning losses of students are being assessed and … school students or to evaluate the govern-ment programs. This is a fundamental problem. The pandemic has only highlighted …

, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the … affected school years without adjusting the core curriculum. The loss of classroom instruction was mainly compensated for by …

identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the … affected school years with no adjustments in the core curriculum. The lost in-school instruction was mainly compensated for by …

-cultural universality of learning motivation. In this paper we discuss the methodology of a learning motivation traits questionnaire and … results of its cross-cultural validation at the sample of 332 German and 865 Russian students. In our study we found … questionnaire. We showed also invariance of learning motivation traits structure. At the same time we found differences in extrinsic …

This article seeks to measure the effect of bullying in math scores of students in the 6th grade of public (Nansel et … al., 2001). school in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil with the use of data from a survey by Joaquim Nabuco … Foundation in 2013. The methodology applied is Propensity Score Matching (PSM) in order to compare students who reported having …

In this paper, I evaluate potential side effects of the educational expansion in Germany on the learning outcomes of … today's students. The educational expansion was a demand shock in the labor market of teachers, which could have thus …-affected teacher with an educational expansion teacher leads to a 2 percent reduction in students' test scores. Explorative analyses …

-service cognitive and pedagogical skills as measured by two state examinations and the high-school GPA on later effectiveness. I apply …

groups of students performed so differently by estimating educational production functions, using an extension study with … method. The analysis shows that German students have on average more favorable characteristics and experience slightly higher … returns to these characteristics in terms of test scores than immigrant students. The later enrolment of immigrant students …

Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … books at home and a variable combining the type and location of their school represent the most important predictors of … student performance in all of the analysed countries, while other school characteristics are rarely relevant. Econometric …