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School closures, forced by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, impacted on children's lives and their learning …. Distant learning solutions adopted by schools have been heterogeneous over countries, within countries and between school … levels.As a consequence, most of the burden of children's learning fell on their parents, with likely uneven results …
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School closures induced by the COVID-19 pandemic led to concerns about student learning. This paper evaluates the … effect of school closures on student learning in Uzbekistan, using a unique dataset that allows assessing change in learning … over time. The findings show that test scores in math for grade 5 students improved over time by 0.29 standard deviation …
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exacerbating existing learning gaps. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention implemented in Italian middle … schools that provides free individual tutoring online to disadvantaged students during lock-down. Tutors are university … students who volunteer for 3 to 6 hours per week. They were randomly assigned to middle school students, from a list of …
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We evaluate the causal effect of class size (i.e., number of students in a classroom) on incidence of class closure due … to flu epidemic in 2015, 2016, and 2017, applying an instrumental variable method with the Maimonides rule to … administrative data of public primary and middle school students in one of the largest municipalities within the City of Tokyo …
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This article explores the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) upon Australia´s education industry with a … number of international students continuing their studies in Australia during the current pandemic. We use a linear …
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phase, European students presented greater motivation and grades, showing a greater preference for this method of learning … been studied. The study aims to analyze the psychological profile, and perception of quality in the teaching-learning … face-to-face. Thus, 1093 university students from Ibero-American countries were studied. Through a questionnaire …
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Many studies examine the importance of teachers in students' learning, but few exist on the contribution of principals …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated both the risk and volatility of energy companies. Can mass vaccinations restore stability within this sector? To answer this question, we investigate stock market data from fifty-eight countries from January 2020 to April 2021. We document that vaccination...
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Crude oil draws attention in recent research as its demand may indicate world economic growth trend in the post-COVID-19 era. In this paper, we study the dynamic lead-lag relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and crude oil future prices. We perform rolling-sample tests to evidence whether...
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The coronavirus crisis that started in December 2019 was declared a pandemic by March 2020 and had devastating global …
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