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I study the impact of online instruction on teaching evaluations at a higher education institution in Spain. Using a … difference-in-differences approach, I show that in the semester when teaching moved online, female lecturers were evaluated more … poorly than in previous semesters. The performance of male lecturers was not impacted by the new teaching environment …
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significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching strategies are most useful for actually … function that affects the technology of teaching. In particular, there was phasing in of intensive support to some schools … intensive support to estimate the effect of the new 'teaching technology' on children's educational attainment. We find there to …
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Teachers often deliver the same lesson multiple times in one day. In contrast to year-to-year teaching experience, it … is unclear how this teaching repetition affects student outcomes. We examine the effects of teaching repetition in a … of positive effects on teaching evaluations. These results suggest that teaching repetition is a powerful tool to reduce …
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The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools and universities to transit from traditional class-based teaching to online … fact that the transition to online teaching has taken place at the beginning of the second semester, while classes were … find that online teaching has reduced students' performance of about 1.4 credits per semester (0.11 Standard Deviations …
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effect was driven by specific demographic groups. However, our results suggest that teaching methods that encourage active …. Our results point to methods for more effective online teaching as the pandemic continues. …
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This work contributes to the literature raising concerns with the use of SET (student teaching evaluation) scores to … evaluate teaching effectiveness and to motivate or demotivate faculty tenure and promotion decisions. It shows that the non … gender and penalty to teaching very weak students are particularly strong. Use of recent and large American data** raises the …
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This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one location...
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We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skills. A regression discontinuity design shows substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on...
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We estimate long-run impacts to the Pathways to Education program, a comprehensive set of coaching, tutoring, group activities and financial incentives offered to disadvantaged students beginning in Grade 9. High school administrative records are matched to income tax records to follow...
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Random effects estimates using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 16 years reveal that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...
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