, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and …-girl schools. These findings are based on a sample from the 2015 PISA which includes more than 35 thousand students from …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

. Motivating students to learn STEM subjects is however a challenge. Teachers have a critical role in motivating students but to do … roles through the effects of other factors, such as school sector and education level of parents of students in the school …

. Motivating students to learn STEM subjects is however a challenge. Teachers have a critical role in motivating students but to do … roles through the effects of other factors, such as school sector and education level of parents of students in the school …

greater for students in schools that faced relatively longer closures, boys, immigrants, and disadvantaged students …

results show that students attending vocational schools perform significantly worse than those in general schools, except in … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … significant, while among students in vocational schools, those in a small city tend to perform better than those in a big city …

students. However, this may come at a cost since the existing literature emphasises the negative association between …. Specifically, for three consecutive years, students at two Belgian universities, in more than ten different study programmes, were … surveyed on their multitasking preferences and academic performance. Then, these results were merged with the students' exam …

- longitudinal data on students' smartphone use and educational performance. For three consecutive years we surveyed all students … of academic achievement. These survey data were merged with the exam scores of these students. We analysed the resulting …

, and other drivers of academic success with the exam scores of first-year students at two Belgian universities. The … exam results is more outspoken for students (i) with highly educated fathers, (ii) with divorced parents and (iii) who are …