based on a representative sampling of over 1500 high-school students in Switzerland shortly before graduation. The findings … they offer. This can clearly be seen in comparison with high-school students preparing to study at another type of higher …

Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess …-effects estimation. Students' own and peer GPAs and their attitudes towards economics have the largest effects on value-added scores. We …

. This study used high-quality data from a four-year randomized experiment in which teachers and students were randomly …

seems that contract teachers do a relatively better job for teaching students with learning difficulties than for teaching …

Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes …-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian 6th-grade dataset that tested both students and their teachers in two …

quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors … performance gap in terms of class dropout and pass rates between white and minority students falls by roughly half when taught by … a minority instructor. In models that allow for a full set of ethnic and racial interactions between students and …

researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A key concern is the extent to which nonrandom sorting of students to …

we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students' misperception of their own and other's ability, thereby increasing … the expected costs to studying. Among high school pupils, we find that pupils with a more positive view of their academic … and students' characteristics. University students are also poor at estimating their own test-performance and over …

We investigate whether tests taken during a high stakes grade by German primary and secondary students produce higher …

students from improving their long-run welfare. We evaluate the recent but rapidly growing efforts to develop policies that …