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teachers' actions that resulted in less attention to female students. Gender bias had an even greater effect in classrooms … where the teachers had worse interactions with students. Results show that less effective teachers (according to the …
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This paper combines novel data on the time use, home learning practices and economic circumstances of families with … children and how it changed during lockdown, and to gauge the extent to which changes in time use and learning practices during …-off families. We find considerable heterogeneity in children’s learning experiences - amount of time spent learning, activities …
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We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to teachers within schools with a …
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cumulative learning between the first and the nth attempt while controlling for selection into retaking in terms of observed and … unobserved characteristics. Large learning gains measured in terms of improvements in the exam scores are found, especially among … less advantaged students. …
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This paper reports the results of an experiment with secondary school students designed to improve their ability to … pedagogical intervention was created that fostered a more active role of students in the classroom. The intervention was … implemented with high fidelity and was internally valid. Students in the control group learned significantly more than those who …
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This paper explores the opportunities for integrating Initiative Based Learning (IBL) and Integrated Assessment Models … (IAMs) in order to improve our understanding of learning in the context of societal transition pathways, and more … learning in a very different way, and the two approaches have major structural differences with respect to the geographical as …
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technologies display learning effects and agents’ rate of learning is private knowledge. In a simple two-period model with full … commitment available to the principal, we show that whether learning effects are over- or under-exploited crucially depends on … whether learning effects increase or decrease the principal’s uncertainty about agents’ costs of production. Hence, what …
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suggests a trade-off of using coarser versus finer representations of the strategy set when it comes to learning. …
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