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where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building …
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of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a … receiving student feedback on student evaluation scores a year later. However, teachers whose self-assessment before the … experiment is much more positive than their students. evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We …
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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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students as a sequential noncooperative game. We show that different types of equilibrium may arise, depending on the mix of … research and teaching supplied by each university, and the mix of low- and high-ability students attending each university. The … most efficient equilibrium results in the creation of an élite institution attended only by high-ability students who enjoy …
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and students' cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children's learning time … decreased severely during the first school closures, particularly for low-achieving students, and increased only slightly one … activities. The review shows substantial losses in cognitive skills on achievement tests, particularly for students from …
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This paper sheds new light on a long-standing puzzle in the international finance literature, namely, that exchange rate expectations appear inaccurate and even irrational. We find for a comprehensive dataset that individual forecasters' performance is skill-based. 'Superior' forecasters show...
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This paper estimates ordered logit and probit regression models for bank ratings which also include a country index to capture country-specific variation. The empirical findings provide support to the hypothesis that the individual international bank ratings assigned by Fitch Ratings are...
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Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take explicitly or implicitly agency theory as a theoretical basis. The emerging psychological economics opens a new perspective. As scholarly research is a mainly curiosity driven...
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Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of "university" and inadequate organizational forms for modern...
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