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This paper estimates the efficiency of students in English universities using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and a new … entry qualifications. The results reveal that university students differ in terms of the efficiency with which they use …
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running from social conditions and factors to productivity growth. <p> The objective of the second issue of the Review of … between population, education, health and social divergence and productivity. In the fourth section, three papers address the …
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enrolment. The college curriculum in IS is revisited and often changed in institutions of higher education to reflect the … evaluated in the USA. The main purpose is to compare these programmes with the 2009-IS model and show the differences that exist … institutions of higher education with respect to core and elective course credit hour offerings in their IS programmes. …
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Midwestern USA. The model provides a framework to simultaneously segment a population, and to explain the effect of various …
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barriers and persistence in postsecondary education, mainly in the USA and in Canada. We find that students' financial …Students' financial difficulties can be considered as one of the most important barriers in postsecondary education … persistence in postsecondary education. In this paper, we propose an analysis of the literature concerning students' financial …
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the South African economics of education literature. The strong legacy of apartheid and the consequent correlation between … education and wealth have meant that, generally speaking, poorer students perform worse academically. The present study uses the …, preschool education, and the availability of reading textbooks. In contrast, teacher-subject knowledge was found to have only a …
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Akerlof and Kranton (2002) model the effects of student identity on achievement. They argue that students have identities that determine the effort expended on learning. Academic achievement within a school depends on the match between student identities and academic and disciplinary standards....
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as the importance of increased efficiency and transportability; privacy, security, and access concerns; quality …
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