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due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small groups, in alternating weeks with and without a more senior … student tutor. The treatment improved study behavior and increased contact to other students. Tutored students achieved around …
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use in schools, and ii) home use by students. Theoretically, ICT investment and CAI use by schools and the use of …
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We estimate the relationship between students ̕educational achievement and the availability and use of computers at … computers. Thus, the mere availability of computers at home seems to distract students from effective learning. But measures of …
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years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased …
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Student achievement has been identified as important contributor to economic growth. This paper investigates the relationship between redistributive government activities and investment in human capital measured by student performance in international comparative tests in Mathematics and Science...
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addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …
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year before the referendum. This exercise reveals a decrease in exchange students studying in the UK of around 3.8% to 4 ….9%. While the number of non-EU students to the UK rises, a drop in EU student numbers drives this result. Similarly, 30% to 38 …% fewer UK students choose to study abroad. The estimated changes in international student stocks show that most other member …
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high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …
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university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that students become more similar to their peers … along several dimensions. Students with more competitive peers become more competitive, students with more open-minded peers … become more open-minded, and students with more conscientious peers become more conscientious. We see no significant effects …
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This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school … combined with psychological examination records, we study the causal impact of gifted students on their classmates in … unprecedented detail. We find a positive and significant effect of the exposure to gifted students on school achievement in both …
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