former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. The cognitive and affective outcomes for high school students who were taught by … (IEEEP) are examined and compared to those of students in courses taught by a sample of teachers who had not received … attitudes. The results indicate that students taught by trained teachers achieved higher post course scores on standardized …

Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects … effects are heterogeneous, both in the type of immigrant classmates, and in the type of native students that are affected …

to provide for an effective and equal learning environment. …

-backed securities (PLS) that began to dominate the market in 2004. The rise of PLS exacerbated informational asymmetries between the … financial institutions that intermediate mortgage finance and PLS investors. These intermediation agents exploited informational … asymmetries to encourage overinvestment in PLS that boosted the financial intermediaries’ volume-based profits and enabled …

equation modeling (CBSEM) estimators and various partial least squares path modeling (PLS-PM) weighting schemes. Thus, this … research is also one of the first to compare CBSEM and PLS-PM within the same simulation study. We establish that the maximum … assumptions, etc.). Under these conditions, ML-CBSEM outperforms PLS-PM. We also demonstrate that the accuracy and robustness of …

such as principal components analysis (PCA) and partial lest squares (PLS). Finally, we describe the most significant …