In several countries, students who fail end-of-high-school high-stakes exams are faced with the choice of retaking them … or forgoing postsecondary education. We explore exogenous variation generated by a 2006 policy that imposed a performance … threshold for admission into postsecondary education in Greece to estimate the effect of retaking exams on a range of outcomes …

students’ academic outcomes are context-dependent …

This study investigated into the school environmental factors affecting students’ academic achievement at the Holy … determining the number of students to sample from the college. Simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used to select … Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) in collaboration with parents and other education stakeholders could be channeled into classroom …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

students in North Carolina I estimate teacher effects on primary school student absences in a value-added framework. The …

outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on … average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra coursework to continue … education, the grade point average is unaffected and the likelihood of completing a Middle Track Secondary School degree falls …

outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on … average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra coursework to continue … education, the grade point average is unaffected and the likelihood of completing a Middle Track Secondary School degree falls …

effects of grit are far-reaching: students with higher grit have better grades at the end of compulsory schooling, are more …