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Is traditional teaching really all that bad? : a within-student between-subject approach
Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 2009
determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the … relationship between lecture style teaching and student achievement. Based on matched student-teacher data for the US, the … traditional lecture style teaching is associated with significantly higher student achievement. No support for detrimental effects …
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Standards für die ökonomische Bildung in der gestuften Lehrerausbildung
Krol, Gerd-Jan; Loerwald, Dirk; Zoerner, Andreas - 2006
The German education system is currently undergoing a reorientation from formerly exclusively input-based control towards output-based measures of quality assurance in schools and universities. A crucial instrument in this reform process is the implementation of educational standards. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298409
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Lost in translation? Teacher training and outcomes in high school economics classes
Valletta, Rob; Hoff, K. Jody; Lopus, Jane S. - 2012
Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess the effects of student and teacher characteristics on student achievement. We estimate value-added models of outcomes on multiple choice and essay exams, with matched classroom...
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Vocational Training: Does it speed up the Transition Rate out of Unemployment?
Cockx, Bart; Bardoulat, Isabelle - 2000
In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on therate of transition out of unemployment. We show that rationing of the demand for training increases theunemployment duration of non-participants, an effect neglected in programme...
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Noncognitive Skills, School Achievements and Educational Dropout (Revised Version)
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2010
We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...
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The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany
Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Zeiss, Christopher - 2004
This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany. We use information from administrative data of the Federal Employment Office. To allow for observable and possible unobservable influences we apply a multivariate mixed...
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The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009
This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for West-German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265807
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The impact of demographic change on human capital accumulation
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009
This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for West-German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269139
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Will There Be a Shortage of Skilled Labor? An East German Perspective to 2015
Buscher, Herbert S.; Dettmann, Eva; Sunder, Marco; … - 2009
We analyze the supply and demand of skilled labor in an East German federal state, Thuringia. This state has been facing high unemployment in the course of economic transformation and experiences population aging and shrinking more rapidly than most West European regions. In a first step, we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271401
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Vocational Training of Unemployed Workers in Belgium
Cockx, Bart Leo Wim - 2003
In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on the rate of transition from unemployment. We propose a ?control function? estimator accounting for variable treatment effects. In the absence of interaction effects between explanatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272726