involved in foreclosure, we investigate the degree to which the test scores of students attending high-foreclosure schools … suffer, even among students not directly experiencing foreclosure. We also explore the impact on individual test scores of … school-level (by grade and year) student mobility - that is, inflows of new students to a school during the school year …

that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we … find evidence that men indeed score significantly higher on the test when graded on a curve. Female students, irrespective …

that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we … find evidence that men indeed score significantly higher on the test when graded on a curve. Female students, irrespective …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

which the test scores of students attending high-foreclosure schools suffer, even among students not directly experiencing … foreclosure. They also explore the impact on individual test scores of inflows of new students to a school during the school year …

teaching experience and attitude) and students’ academic performance of Biology in secondary schools in Calabar Municipality of … students and five teachers. Data collected were analyzed using One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The researcher posited … teachers’ years of teaching experience inextricably has a significant influence on students’ academic performance in Biology …

Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to … schools operate and how they might be made more effective. In this new framework students have a dual role. They are both (a … behavior of students, teachers and administrators depends on the incentives facing them and the actions of the other actors in …