Higher education policymakers are concerned about the success of first-generation college students. In this study, we … investigate one potential factor that may influence outcomes: first-generation students' peers. To mitigate common biases that may … impacts first-semester English grades for first-generation students. Our findings for math are inconclusive, with at best …

Social theories posit that peers affect students' academic self-concept (ASC). Most prominently, Big …-Fish-Little-Pond, invidious comparison, and relative deprivation theories predict that exposure to academically stronger peers decreases students …' ASC, and exposure to academically weaker peers increases students' ASC. These propositions have not yet been tested …

points of view: 1. The Quality of The Leadership at the Level of the Guild of Students? 2. An education system which does not …The deregistering of University of the West Indies students for the inability to pay fees for academic year 2006/7, has …

participation in higher education, in particular among groups traditionally under-represented in the sector. These concerns have … characteristics?" Are mature students more likely to drop out? Is there an empirical distinction between younger and older mature … students? Are male students more prone to dropping out? To what extent can the level of entry qualifications explain dropouts …

the distribution of students amongst college majors …

and universal higher education; secondly, a discussion of the consequences of US institutional stratification; and … conceptual distinction between, elite, mass and universal higher education is flawed and not suitable for guiding further reform … postgraduate degrees (MA, PhD). The rise of the European Higher Education Area with 46 member states, and more expected to join …

predictive power of high school grades and other measures of cognitive abilities declines only slightly as students progress. In … observable exogenous variables on the grade performance of students in economics courses at four half-year intervals. We apply a … contrast, any gender differences among economics students are of a transitory nature …

readiness in mathematics among low-income high school students. Within-school course taking patterns in math are examined for … the same students from 3rd through 12th grade, conditional on previous grade math scores and socioeconomic status, using … within schools; ii) conditional on previous scores, do students in these classes advance faster; and iii) conditional on …

We analyse peer effects among students of a middle-sized Italian public university. We explain students' average grade … definitions of peer groups, describing different kinds of students' interaction, based on classes attended together or exams taken … instrument, the exogenous assigning of students to different teaching classes in the compulsory courses attended during their …

We examine the effect of the first-degree students' employment on the prolongation of their studies. When employing a … popular instrumental variable, the regional unemployment rate, we find a negative impact of students' employment on duration … - turns the estimate positive. Furthermore, we find that the relationship between the extent of students’ employment and …