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We examine the empirical determinants of student achievement in higher education, focusing our attention on its small-group teaching component (classes or seminars) and on the role of attendance, number of students per class, peers, and tutors. The empirical analysis is based on longitudinal...
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We examine the empirical determinants of student achievement in higher education, focusing our attention on its small-group teaching component (classes or seminars) and on the role of attendance, number of students per class, peers, and tutors. The empirical analysis is based on longitudinal...
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Numerous economic studies have considered the relationship between class size and student achievement, the majority of which have focused on elementary schools in the US and Europe. While the general finding is that smaller classes are associated with increased student achievement, a few...
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impact of attending an exam school in the United States on longer term academic outcomes. Attending an exam school increases … the rigor of high school courses taken and the probability that a student graduates with an advanced high school degree …. Surprisingly, however, attending an exam school has little impact on Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, college enrollment, or …
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impact of attending an exam school in the United States on longer term academic outcomes. Attending an exam school increases … the rigor of high school courses taken and the probability that a student graduates with an advanced high school degree …. Surprisingly, however, attending an exam school has little impact on Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, college enrollment, or …
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South Korean high school seniors’ performance in the college entrance examination and college attendance. The results with …-educational schools but not in raising four-year college attendance. We find no differences in academic outcomes of high school seniors … effects of single-sex schooling are heterogeneous across school ownership types and gender, indicating some interaction …
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The following report is the first of a two-stage video study to examine teaching practices and activities in Indonesian classrooms. The first stage is linked to results of the 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) where 100 of the 150 classes that participated in the...
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