(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more … teacher management skills in education production. …

Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … books at home and a variable combining the type and location of their school represent the most important predictors of … student performance in all of the analysed countries, while other school characteristics are rarely relevant. Econometric …

pre-primary education and achievement test scores in primary school. Relying on the first-of-its-kind 2015 wave data from …-primary education is a robust determinant with a negative impact on students’ performance in science. This result is confirmed both …Existing theoretical and empirical evidence on the determinants of students’ performance reveals a direct link between …

lower-secondary school and high school byexploiting a large longitudinal dataset of about 50,000 students in Italy. We … counterparts, after controlling for householdcharacteristics, school fixed effects, and students' performance. We show … findthat immigrant students are less likely to choose challenging academic track highschools compared with their Italian …

Students in East-Asian countries consistently score in the top in international assessments. One possible explanation … gradual roll-out of the program across compulsory schools, we find that it improves teaching practices and boosts students …

on the probability of being admitted to upper secondary school or the students' choice of educational track. However, our … in college-preparatory programs in upper secondary school among students with lower educated parents. … pupils who are given a personal laptop or tablet, rather than having more limited computer access, are affected in terms of …

school students, triggered a significant drop in public secondary school attendance (a decline of about 15 percentage points … in all four grades). Attendance returned to normal levels in 2012. Using the type of school that students attended in … persistent negative effect of school absenteeism on students' academic performance: this negative effect is present even for …

comportment grading across German federal states to estimate its causal effect on students' school-to-work transitions as well as …Numerous countries require teachers to assign comportment grades rating students' social and work behavior in the … consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors. …

school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased … years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … their performance in mathematics by .16 standard deviations at the end of the school year and by .06 standard deviations in …

practices and students' use of time in the home based on information from a randomized control trial. The results show that the …. XO laptops also reduce the probability that students will perform household chores between 9 and 40 pp while said … language and the majority of results refer to students in fourth grade of primary. The variety and overlapping of effects may …