students, and significant differences in student progress due to fields of study …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school … students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we …

This article assesses the impact of a two-year long project-based learning program conducted by the National Opera of … Paris in a large number of junior high-schools located in underprivileged areas, aiming at preventing school dropout and … tackling educational inequalities by providing disadvantaged students with the opportunity to discover the world of opera …

. Using unique longitudinal Belgian data, we find that pupils who work during the summer holidays of secondary education are … education on later employment outcomes. To this end, we jointly model student work and later schooling and employment outcomes … 15.3% more likely to have a job three months after leaving school. This premium to student work experience is higher when …

quality perceptions of higher education. However, the students with less contact with university staff and facilities seem to …While a plethora of studies examines the relationships amongst university education service quality, customer … examines study mode differences among undergraduate students in relation to service quality dimensions and overall satisfaction …

on 372 sixth graders in Sweden where students complete a math test with the possibility of winning a prize if performing … adequately. The students were assigned to three groups with different instructions on how their performance was assessed …. Students in treatment 1 (criterion-based grading) and treatment 2 (norm-based grading) were informed that in addition to their …

university. We exploit data from a setting where students are randomly assigned to teaching sections and find that students with … on students' careers …

tertiary education and training business administration students and their employers in Switzerland, we find that competences … workplace than at school. The only exceptions are analytical thinking, joy of learning and organizational competences, for which … the learning place for both human resource managers as well as educational decision makers who aim to combine education …

, on higher education students' choice of profession and on their academic performance. We statistically analyzed a sample …-intuition dichotomies (the latter was significant only for female students). We also found differences in the explanatory power of …