Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that implementing different teaching practices is effective, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores. The...

Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that implementing different teaching practices is effective, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores. The...

This paper aims to analyse how universities are currently improving CSR teaching, pointing out some new challenges and trends emerging from a context in which CSR issues have become increasingly important. The research provides a longitudinal study of the literature for a period of 20 years....

Die globale COVID-19 Pandemie rückt nicht nur gesundheitliche und soziale Aspekte in den Fokus, sondern auch die Thematik der Digitalisierung. Universitäten mussten hier schnell (re)agieren und ihre Anpassungsfähigkeit unter Beweis stellen: So wurde innerhalb kürzester Zeit der...

This work aims to investigate different teaching ethics methodologies for university graduate students in order to recognize and prevent fraud in all sectors of industry because they will get involved in the industry following their study at the University. There are various arguments against...

There are many different approaches to teaching business models. This paper presents a generic five-step approach developed through a decade of teaching business models in different geographically, educational and industrial settings. The approach is based upon the teaching principles of...

This paper provides insights towards the development of an impactful entrepreneurial course called New Venture Creation. The course is based on the principals of Lean Start-up methodology but modified to encompass the demands from a Higher Educational Institution. The course has shown positive...

Kenntnisse und Chancen der Kinder sind nach Schulschließungen und Distanzunterricht so ungleich wie nie. Zusatzunterricht, Wiederholung von Schuljahren, Reduktion des Stoffs: Es gibt keine einfache Lösung für die Schule nach Corona - die Folgen jedes Weges sollten bedacht werden. Maßstab der...

Die globale COVID-19 Pandemie rückt nicht nur gesundheitliche und soziale Aspekte in den Fokus, sondern auch die Thematik der Digitalisierung. Universitäten mussten hier schnell (re)agieren und ihre Anpassungsfähigkeit unter Beweis stellen: So wurde innerhalb kürzester Zeit der...

Recent evidence suggests a positive effect of the quantity of instruction on student achievement. In this paper, I focus on the interaction between the quantity and the quality of instruction. Using international TIMSS data, I exploit within-student between-subject variation. I find that on...

This paper investigates how changing the length of the school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed some students to a total of about two thirds of a year...

The large literature that analyzes the impact of immigration on the United States typically focuses on measuring the labor market and fiscal consequences. This literature, however, has ignored the impact of immigration on other sectors of society. One sector that is of great interest is the...

The purpose and goal of this paper is to consider how it is possible to improve the current mediation training in England and Wales. A significant recommendation made in this paper concerns the duration and method of delivery of the family mediation training. The current training only lasts two...

Der Beitrag beleuchtet Transformationsprozesse in Richtung nachhaltige Regionalentwicklung an ausgewählten Hochschulen in Deutschland und Österreich. Mittels vier Fallstudien (Universität Augsburg, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz und Hochschule...

The study aimed to determine the level of readiness and instructional competence of Grade I and II teachers in the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Instruction in selected elementary schools in Hagonoy, Davao del Sur for the school year 2013-2014 using a descriptive correlational survey research...

This research investigates whether undergraduate students believe that Competitive Intelligence (CI) teaching leads to an increase in their chances of professional success, regardless of whether they want a career in CI or not. It is an exploratory study, with an initial section on bibliographic...

The purpose and goal of this paper is to consider how it is possible to improve the current mediation training in England and Wales. A significant recommendation made in this paper concerns the duration and method of delivery of the family mediation training. The current training only lasts two...

Der Beitrag beleuchtet Transformationsprozesse in Richtung nachhaltige Regionalentwicklung an ausgewählten Hochschulen in Deutschland und Österreich. Mittels vier Fallstudien (Universität Augsburg, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz und Hochschule...

Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) are subjective measures of student satisfaction that are often used to assess teaching quality. In this paper, we show that heterogeneity in students' reporting styles challenges SET validity. Using administrative data that allow us to track all evaluations...

The COVID-19 school closures forced children and parents to make unprecedented changes to their daily routines. Including the summer holidays, most children will have had a five-and-a-half-month break from physically attending school by the time they returned in September. There has been...

One of the goals of the College of Education is to assess the quality of education served to clientele by monitoring the graduates in terms of their employment status, the kind of life enjoyed after graduation. The study aimed to trace the graduates in Bachelor of Teacher Technical Education...

Preface / Andrea Guiden-Pittman and Jenice L. View -- Stepping into the New Deal : a meet and greet / Jenice L. View -- Teaching the Indian New Deal / John R. Gram -- Centering the black experience in teaching the New Deal / Daniella Cook and Jeffrey Eargle -- Years of desperation, years of hope...

Risk aversion might affect current and potential teachers' reaction to reforms, in particular payment reforms. However, evidence on teachers' risk aversion in comparison to other occupations is limited. The present study is based on twelve waves of a representative German data set (N = 18,381)...

We present experiments exploring why high ability workers join teams with less able co-workers when there are no short-term financial benefits. We distinguish between two explanations: pro-social preferences and expected long-term financial gains from teaching future teammates. Participants...

Context: In Finland, vocational education has been competence-based and learner-orientated since the beginning of 2018. Teachers' work has changed because there is a need to pay more attention to students and their specific personal needs. Learning processes are planned individually and more...

Prior research has shown that time spent in school does not close the achievement gap between students with low and high socioeconomic status (SES). We examine the effect of combining increased instruction time with information to teachers about their students' reading achievements by using a...

This study assesses the relevance of basic formal education in information technology for inclusive human development in 49 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The question it aims to answer is the following: what is the relevance of basic formal education in the effect of...

This paper investigates whether the effects of a reform that substantially increased daily instruction time in Chilean primary schools vary depending on school institutions. Focusing on legacy enrollment students and exploiting an IV strategy, we find that longer daily schedules increase reading...