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-message coaching program - in a sample of over 3,000 undergraduate students at a large Canadian university. Supplementing … program effects on students' non-academic outcomes, despite estimating null effects on course grades and credit accumulation …
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. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures … instruction. These results are particularly strong for Hispanic students, male students, and lower-achieving students. We also …
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traditional on-campus college programs. The Colombian context is uniquely suited to study this topic, as students take a … students in online and on-campus programs both across and within institutions, degrees, and majors. Using inverse probability … results suggest that bachelor's degree students in online programs perform worse on nearly all test score measures (including …
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the academic outcomes of both high school and college students. These programs are often costly to implement and difficult … contrast, interventions that rely on technology to maintain low-touch contact with students can be implemented at large scale … students. We work with a sample of over four thousand undergraduate students from a large Canadian university, randomly …
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access to the lessons increased students' math achievement by 0.06 of a standard deviation, but providing teachers with … online access to the lessons along with supports to promote their use increased students' math achievement by 0.09 of a …
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Balancing the demands of work and schooling is a challenging task for an increasing number of students who have to pay … working and educational formats is high among the students in our sample, who view online education as an important vehicle … formats could constitute a suitable path for many (lowSES) students who work to afford an increasingly expensive college …
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Weak labor markets typically lead young workers to invest in skills. High unemployment during COVID diverged from prior downturns: enrollment at community colleges dropped by 9.5 percent between 2019 and 2020, with the drop larger among men. COVID disruptions generated supply-side impacts on...
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that students in face-to-face courses perform better than their online counterparts with respect to their grades, the … grading. While these developments led to an increase in grades for all students overall, those who began Spring 2020 in face … with better broadband technology is associated with a larger increase in grades among students who had to switch from in …
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in religiosity of students majoring in the social sciences and humanities, but a rise in religiosity for those in …
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-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regression-discontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …
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