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Same-sex role model effects in education

de Gendre, Alexandra; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; … - 2023

We study same-sex role model effects of teachers with a meta-analysis and our own study of three million students in 90 countries. Both approaches show that role model effects on performance are, on average, small: 0.030 SD in the meta-analysis and 0.015 SD in our multi-country study. Going...

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The Literacy Hour

Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra - 2004

Literacy Project (NLP) was undertaken in about 400 English primary schools in 1997 and 1998. We compare the reading and overall … compulsory education (age 16). We find a larger increase in attainment in reading and English for pupils in NLP schools as …

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Improving reading skills by encouraging children to read: A randomized evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines

Abeberese, Ama Baafra; Kumler, Todd J.; Linden, Leigh L. - 2011

We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading … a reading assessment, causing students' scores to improve by 0.13 standard deviations immediately after the program. The …

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Children Reading Fiction Books Because They Want To

van Ours, Jan - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This paper investigates the reading of fiction books by 15-year-olds in 18 OECD countries.It appears that girls fiction … books is influenced by parental education, family structure, and the number of books and tv's at home.Reading comic books … does not affect the reading of fiction books.Parents who want their children to read fiction books frequently should have a …

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Books for Children: Local and Global Problems C.M. Hewins. The History of Children’s Books

Penskaja, Elena - In: Educational Studies (2008) 1, pp. 283-285

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/188801/childrens"booksTranslated from English by I. Friedman

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Books for Children: Local and Global Problems C.M. Hewins. The History of Children’s Books

Hewins, Caroline - In: Educational Studies (2008) 1, pp. 286-297

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/188801/childrens"booksTranslated from English by I. Friedman

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What Russian High Schools Can Teach in a Year Based on PISA-2009: Reading Literacy

Tyumeneva, Yulia; Kuzmina, Yulia - In: Educational Studies (2013) 1, pp. 107-135

Federation. Email: papushka@mail.ru This study uses PISA-2009 (reading) results to estimate effects of spending one year in …

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Reader’s literacy of 15-year-olds: the importance of family, individual and school characteristics (According to the Russian sample PISA 2009)

Kuzmina, Yulia; Tyumeneva, Yulia - In: Educational Studies (2011) 3, pp. 164-191

The authors estimate contribution of different factors in reading skills of 15?year-olds by using four models of … reading skills). At the school level the aggregated family characteristics of students affect individual achievements, and … significant contribution to achievement. Attitudes toward reading and learning are significant at the individual level, but at the …

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Policies to foster human capital

Heckman, James - In: Educational Studies (2011) 3, pp. 73-137

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Une pratique au carrefour : l'historiographie brésilienne et ses défis contemporains

Dutra, Eliana de Freitas - In: Revue Tiers-Monde n° 216 (2013) 4, pp. 45-70

reading and of the book ; and the history of slavery, having as a backdrop the political implications of historiographic work …

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