Italy and exploiting the random assignment of first year students to college accommodation, we find that roommate peer …

applying from high school do not object to paying for a quality education, whereas ‘other’ students tend to be more …We specify and estimate a demand equation for university education in Canada that is a function of tuition fees, real … disposable income per capita and other variables that capture a student’s opportunity cost. Our model has a number of novel …

value-added analysis, geared principally to supporting teacher and school accountability; and Betebenner’s (2009) student … structural elements, and produce similar quantitative indicators of both individual student progress and estimated school effects …

Knowledge of motivation levels of students in programs is insightful information for educators. At the graduate level … lack of research on motivation of graduate students makes it difficult to develop a comprehensive understanding of this … students and 43 liberal arts students. Comparisons are made between the two student populations and recommendations are offered …

Although the relationship between students’ perceptions of quality of teaching and student satisfaction may seem self … perceived teaching quality categorization emerges as a concept with multiple facets centered on learning, enthusiasm …, interaction and student engagement, communications, and practical relevance. The authors note significant links among students …

, obtained by providing students with information on the true population distribution of various major-specific characteristics …. Students logically revise their beliefs in response to the information, and their subjective beliefs about future major choice …

of professors, students, and courses was analyzed. Two principal findings are documented. First, students’ grade …’ historical grade distribution. Second, students’ willingness to take additional courses with a particular professor is directly … courses by: (a) increasing the students’ expected grades and (b) promoting the academic environment that would transform …

Pell students are not crowded out of more-selective schools by Hope's intent to retain the best Georgia high-school … needy students and has been leveraged into greater federal Pell assistance. While institution-specific increases in both … students, as might have been anticipated …

The goal of this paper is to develop predictions regarding market consequences of peer effects in higher education and … which colleges seek to maximize the quality of the educational experience provided to their students. From this model we … deduce predictions about the hierarchy of schools that emerges in equilibrium, the allocation of students by income and …

Each year, millions of Chinese high school students sit the National College Entrance Examination (CEE). For the … majority of students, the CEE score is the single determinant in whether they gain admission into a college and to what college …. We also consider high school achievement and admission route in predicting college grades. We obtain administrative data …