is to estimate the percentage of IA among Greek university students. Results of a sample survey among 1876 Greek … university students, 18-27 years old, are presented. The questionnaire consisted of eight questions from Young's Diagnostic Test … students were associated with poorer academic performance. Multiple logistic regression showed that significant predictors of …

This paper analyzes how high-ability students respond to different indicators of university quality when applying for a … information in the quality dimensions mentoring, infrastructure and students' satisfaction than with respect to research …. -- Higher education ; university choice ; college admission ; conditional logit …

The paper investigates the effect of teacher characteristics (experience, level of education attainment and credentials …, gender) on the achievement of eighth grade students using matched student-teacher data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 TIMSS … education degree might drive down student achievement. However, there is a substantial heterogeneity among countries; teacher …

Tertiary education has been expanding hugely over the last decades, so that tertiary dropout students will constitute a … career trajectory of dropout students is virtually non-existent. Using data from the 2011 Programme for the International … education labour market chances are better than for equally educated adults in about half of the countries examined. …

sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in … finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We firstly show that procrastination is a strong predictor of students … background characteristics and indicators of students' motivation. Secondly, we investigate, using a Regression Discontinuity …

had an impact on the number of first-year students. Our results indicate that this is not the case. This observation might …, while students are more interested in the reputation of their preferred field of study. Hence, students compare the quality …

intergenerational framework, we show that a two-tier higher education system with standard and elite universities generates social …

Colombia and the country s excessively high school dropout rates. By using the OLS and trimming for bounds techniques, and …-related performance gap is explained by selection problems in the group of low-skilled and poor male students. In particular, the high … overcome this issue, unobservable male students are simulated and bounding procedures used. The results of this analysis …

This study comprises 128 cases in which the same students have evaluated one lecture at two different points of time … between grades and students' evaluations of teaching (which are often observed) are not fully explainable by the grading … leniency hypothesis and/or the students' characteristics hypothesis. Rather university lecturers seem to have the opportunity …

education, but uncommon in the US. I present a simple theoretical model to compare rational student behavior in the case of only … average total student effort. -- frequency of examinations ; education production function ; rationality …