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"Teaching to teach" literacy
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - 2016
Significant numbers of people have very low levels of literacy in many OECD countries and, because of this, face significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching strategies are most useful for actually rectifying literacy deficiencies. The subject remains...
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Learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: it is not who you teach, but how you teach
Orlov, George; McKee, Douglas; Berry, James; Boyle, Austin - 2020
We use standardized end-of-course knowledge assessments to examine student learning during the disruptions induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining seven economics courses taught at four US R1 institutions, we find that students performed substantially worse, on average, in Spring 2020 when...
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Returns to teaching repetition : the effect of short-term teaching experience on student outcomes
Cuffe, Harold E.; Feld, Jan; O'Grady, Trevor - 2019
setting where students are randomly assigned to a university instructor's first, second, third or fourth lesson on the same …
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The effects of a high school curriculum reform on university enrollment and the choice of college major
Görlitz, Katja; Gravert, Christina - 2015
This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform on students' probability to enroll at university …-in-differences model. The results show that the reform increased university enrollment rates for both gender. With regard to choosing STEM …
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Breadth of university curriculum and labor market outcomes
Seah, Kelvin; Pan, Jessica; Poh Lin Tan - 2020
We explore whether the choice of broad versus specialized university curricula affects subsequent labor market outcomes …, as measured by earnings, full-time permanent employment, and unemployment six months after university graduation. We … exploit a unique episode in the history of the National University of Singapore, in which a university-wide revision in …
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The pathways to college
Agarwal, Lisha; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2019
We estimate the effect of the high school curriculum (or track) on the returns to college using data from the Italian …
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Which factors determine the grades of undergraduate students in economics? : some evidence from Spain
Dolado, Juan J. (contributor); Morales, Eduardo (contributor) - 2006
track at high school and the grades at the university entry exam are the key factors we examine. Our main findings are that …
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A simple nudge increases socioeconomic diversity in undergraduate Economics
Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - 2021
We assess whether a light-touch intervention can increase socioeconomic and racial diversity in undergraduate Economics. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message combined with an emphasis on the rewarding careers or...
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College credit on the table? : advanced placement course and exam taking
Fazlul, Ishtiaque; Jones, Todd R.; Smith, Jonathan - 2021
Millions of high school students who take an Advanced Placement (AP) course in one of over 30 subjects can earn college credit by performing well on the corresponding AP exam. Using data from four metro-Atlanta public school districts, we find that 15 percent of students' AP courses do not...
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Students are almost as effective as professors in university teaching
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2019
In a previous paper, we have shown that academic rank is largely unrelated to tutorial teaching effectiveness. In this paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost as effective as senior instructors, and we produce...
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