access to the lessons increased students' math achievement by 0.06 of a standard deviation, but providing teachers with … online access to the lessons along with supports to promote their use increased students' math achievement by 0.09 of a …

introductory microeconomics between one semester in which students were randomly assigned into the formats and another semester … when students were allowed to choose their format. In each semester we offered the same course with the sections taught at … effect of format. Students in the compressed format of the randomized arm of the study scored -0.19 standard deviations less …

best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter college as open to a major in math or … science as to any other major group, but that a large number of students move away from math and science after realizing that … because students realize that their ability in math/science is lower than expected rather than because students realize that …

We establish the presence of a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries using detailed …

We study the correlation between parental gender attitudes and the performance in mathematics of girls using two … when we study the correlations between girls' performance in mathematics and maternal gender role attitudes, using evidence … the observed gender disparities in mathematics performance and document that maternal gender attitudes correlate with …

uses prior test scores to identify middle school students deemed qualified for a college preparatory math sequence …-seventh, and by over one-third for female and non-low income students. Acceleration increases college readiness and intentions to … pursue a bachelor's degree. Course placement rules based on objective measures can identify students capable of completing …

achievement. Data from the American Mathematics Competitions is used to produce counts of high-scoring students from more than two …This paper explores differences in the frequency with which students from different schools reach high levels of math … thousand public, coeducational, non-magnet, non-charter U.S. high schools. High-achieving students are found to be very far …

This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …