The paper discusses in detail the problems of the USE (Unified State Examination) in mathematics. Specifically, the paper studies the examination procedure and determines how well the examination stands up to Well-known technical, methodological, and didactical characteristics of efficient...

The Soviet Union, especially on its decline, gave priority in secondary and higher education to technical professions, while leaving humanities in the background. We centered our study round the content of school education, with the focus on humanities, to see to what an extent the situation has...

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Marina Vetchinova - Doctor of Science, Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Professional Communication, Kursk State University. Address: 33, Radishcheva str., Kursk, 305000, Russian Federation. E-mail: marx2003@list.ruIn 1850, even Petersburg didnt have any educational institution to...

We study a market where two universities, a public and a private one, compete for students by setting admission standards. Students differ in ability and receive a wage premium for participating in higher education. This wage increases with the quality of the university attended. The private...

. We analyze the incidence in student’s effort from implementing two different reward systems: a standard-based model and a tournament. In the former we work in detail the effects on effort due to changes in rewards, risk level, socieconomic background and passing standard, while in the later...

Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to devote to learning per year and (d) Whether to disrupt or assist the learning of classmates. The thousands of studies that have applied human capital theory to the first two...

Vladimir Blinov, D.Sc. in Pedagogy, Professor in the Chair of Pedagogics, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russian Federation, award winner in Pinsky Awards Education Research Competition (2010). Email: Endless111@yandex.ru Address: Bld. 1, 1 Malaya Pirogovskaya St., Moscow, 119991,...

While students from more advantageous family backgrounds tend to perform better, it is not clear that they exert more effort compared to those from less advantageous family backgrounds. We build a model of students, schools, and employers to study the interaction of family background and effort...