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(ICT) program that provides middle school students with access to mobile digital devices (i.e., either individual or shared … students into high school, we identify the lasting impact of treatment on performance in national exams and college … access tablets), on students' skills. Employing conditional random assignment and comprehensive administrative and survey …
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College success requires students to engage with their institution academically and administratively. Missteps with …-based chatbot that proactively reached out to students to support navigation of administrative processes and use of campus resources … targeting college students to formulate testable hypotheses about their effective use for promoting college success …
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Pre- and post- intercultural competency results are compared from multiple groups of undergraduate students … participating in short-term (<14 days) study abroad to students completing junior-level course work in global business and to … students participating in an introductory global business course with cultural mentors. Cultural competencies were measured by …
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school children, we document that in university the youngest students perform better compared to their oldest peers …In this paper we estimate relative age effects in academic performance using a unique database of students at Bocconi … University. The identification exploits school entry cut-off ages that generate up to 11 months difference between the youngest …
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explore a candidate mechanism, the provision of school effort. We show that, when earnings reflect individual educational … exploiting the random assignment of first year students to college accommodation, we find evidence that peer effects are positive … and statistically significant for students enrolled in the fields of Engineering, Maths and Natural Sciences - which are …
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This paper studies how a student’s ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in … university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank …: improvements in rank raise performance, while decreases in rank have no effect. Rank effects partially operate through students …
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The COVID-19 government measures coerced instructors to immediately change the teaching and examination formats. We analyze the situation at German business and economics faculties and provide evidence on how the sudden digitalization affects examination results. We show that courses taught...
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-Market with Priorities mechanism, prevents justified course envy, prevents Pareto improvements among students respecting the … priority structure, is strategy-proof in the large, bounds envy by a single course among students at the same level of priority …
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school-related factors, such as metacognition–assess credibility, mathematics learning time, early childhood education and …Using a machine learning approach, we attempt to identify the school-, student-, and country-related factors that … care, grade repetition, school type and size, class size, and student behavior hindering learning, as important predictors …
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Students are admitted into higher education based on their past performance. This paper compares two measures of past … education programmes. We find that teacher scores predict students' performance in higher education more accurately, and its … on the role that high school scores and admission exams should have for access and performance in higher education. …
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