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Closing the gap between vocational and general education? : evidence from University Technical Colleges in England
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Terrier, Camille; … - 2020
Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced "University Technical Colleges" (UTCs) in 2010 for...
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Is traditional teaching really all that bad? : a within-student between-subject approach
Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 2009
determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the … relationship between lecture style teaching and student achievement. Based on matched student-teacher data for the US, the … traditional lecture style teaching is associated with significantly higher student achievement. No support for detrimental effects …
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Total instructional time exposure and student achievement : an extreme bounds analysis based on German state-level variation
Mandel, Philipp; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2011
Using pooled data on instructional time and student performance by subject, our study finds evidence for the school inputs-student achievement relationship for German states. This finding is robust both to the inclusion of state fixed effects and in an extensive extreme bounds analysis. It...
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The more, the better? : the impact of instructional time on student performance
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, … - 2016
Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity of research examining the effectiveness of its use. We build on the work of Lavy (2015) using the variance of subject-specific instruction time within Switzerland to determine...
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The value of smarter teachers : international evidence on teacher cognitive skills and student performance
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014
Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...
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Teacher subject knowledge, didactic skills, and student learning in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
Bietenbecker, Jan; Irmert, Natalie; Sepahvand, Mohammad H. - 2022
We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa. We use data from an international large-scale assessment in 14 countries that include individual-level information on student achievement and...
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Active learning improves financial education : experimental evidence from Uganda
Kaiser, Tim; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2022
on loans increases by about 30 percent for both treatments. The findings suggest that teaching methods can play an …
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Small group instruction to improve student performance in mathematics in early grades : results from a randomized field experiment
Bonesrønning, Hans; Finseraas, Henning; Hardoy, Inés; … - 2021
for policy-makers seeking to use additional teaching resources to target a heterogeneous student population efficiently. …
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The association of opening K-12 schools and colleges with the spread of Covid-19 in the United States : county-level panel data analysis
Chernozhukov, Victor; Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Schrimpf, Paul - 2021
an increase in visits to schools and opening schools with different teaching methods (in-person, hybrid, and remote) is …
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Lifetime consequences of lost instructional time in the classroom : evidence from shortened school years
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2022
This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost instructional time in the classroom on labor market performance. For identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the affected school years with no adjustments in...
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