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are not equally distributed among graduates, since recent literature shows that disadvantaged students are less likely to … study abroad than better off students. This is explained by differing social capital of individuals from diverse socio … differences in mobility by socio-economic background can be explained by ability of students? Throughout, results for Erasmus …
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This paper analyzes professors' effect from a fundamental first-year course in Economics on students' later performance … in follow-on courses with a special attention given to the problem of self-selection bias of students toward certain … professors. Based on an extensive dataset consisting of administrative data on more than 2, 900 students from the university of …
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The paper presents the results of research related to students' perception of enhancing their critical thinking during … public universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) in order to investigate students' perception of enhancing their critical … is to find if BH students are aware of the necessity to enhance their critical thinking abilities during their studies in …
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environments. However, disadvantaged students have lowerparticipation rates in mobility schemes, and hence benefit less from their … across allcountries that disadvantaged students do not only lose out on mobility experience due totheir background but also …
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enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees …
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findings of the study showed that multiple measures assessments placed the majority of students higher in comparison with the … traditional placement exams. Student academic history in the courses that students were placed into shows no difference in course … success between students using multiple measures assessments and traditional placement exams …
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leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …
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