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 …

This paper investigates the impact of district-level course mandates on students’ end-of-course economic understanding …. Data were collected from Mississippi high school students studying economics in three different course environments …. Students were either enrolled in a one semester economics course required for graduation, enrolled in a one semester course …

This paper presents a higher education special access program for students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds … students after enrollment finds evidence that, consistent with Arcidiacono et al (2011), although on average special admission … students have comparable final grades than their ordinary admission peers, they tend to perform comparatively worse in "hard …

According to the existing evidence some higher education admission tests may be screening out students who, despite a … relative lack of specific knowledge, possess as much intellectual ability as their peers. If this is the case, students from …) across the three parts of the exam between students who received a "cheat sheet" after the first or second parts of the test …

First year students at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, one of the leading Chilean universities, are … that being assigned as a freshman to a group with more or less students from a same school, or from a given socioeconomic … score of first semester classmates not only has no positive impact on the academic performance of undergraduate students …

Principles of Economics students at Mississippi State University were provided the opportunity to use computer assisted … instruction (CAI) as a supplemental study activity. Students were free to choose the extent of their computer work. Throughout the …, workbook, class notes, and study groups. The surveys indicated that only a minority of the students actively pursued CAI …