The facility of student support services comprising personal and financial counselling, careers guidance and support for students is an familiar part of the support available to students in all higher education institutions (HEIs).The growing multiplicity of students entering HEIs has resulted...

Although the relationship between students’ perceptions of quality of teaching and student satisfaction may seem self-evident, the interaction between these concepts and related methods of assessment is rarely examined. The findings reveal that the perceived teaching quality categorization...

This chapter discusses the psychological challenges faced by students in the process of learning in the classroom, particularly in Indonesia. Although many external factors can affect students' success in learning, such as quality teaching and adequate learning environment, internal factors such...

I study the effect of graduating within the nominal length of a university degree on the probability of working abroad after graduation. I solve for endogeneity by exploiting the exogenous variation in the probability of graduating on time that has been induced by a recent reform of the Italian...

We estimate the increase in earnings from a law degree relative to a bachelor's degree for graduates who majored in different fields in college. Students with humanities and social sciences majors comprise approximately 47 percent of law degree holders compared to 23 percent of terminal...

In dieser Studie werden 128 Fälle betrachtet, in denen dieselben Studenten eine Vorlesung zu zwei verschiedenen Zeitpunkten evaluiert haben. Die Besonderheit dabei ist, dass ausschließlich Fälle berücksichtigt werden, in denen die zum Zeitpunkt der Evaluation erwartete oder bereits erhaltene...

Bereits 2002 wurden bei einer BWL-Klausur zwei PISA-Aufgaben gestellt und die Rechtschreibung überprüft, was wiederum mit den Noten bzw. Punkten der Klausur korreliert wurde. Es gibt interessante Ergebnisse und Zusammenhänge, die jedoch nicht völlig eindeutig sind.

The COVID-19 pandemic has made a major impact on higher education and affected students’ livelihoods and attainment of education. To help students during these challenging times the Federal CARES Act was established to provide financial relief and support students in their time of need,...

The focus of the study was to determine if a difference existed with student academic level placement when utilizing traditional placement exams versus using high school performance metric multiple measure placement. Additionally, the study explored academic performance outcomes between similar...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget expansion from 1998 through 2003 increased demand for biomedical research, raising relative wages and total employment in the market for biomedical scientists. However, because research doctorates in biomedical sciences can often take six years...