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Impact of Education on Lifestyles: What Do Longitudinal Data Show?
Danyal, Shah; Fayissa, Bichaka; Lee, Jong-Sung - Economics and Finance Department, Jennings A. Jones … - 2011
This essay investigates the effect of education on different lifestyle variables using NLSY79 panels for 1992, 1994, and 1998. The lifestyle variables are smoking, drinking, marijuana use, and cocaine use. The analysis addresses the joint determination of lifestyle variables within the framework...
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Tweets of a Feather Flock Together: An Analysis of the Impact of Twitter in a Class of Translation
Peñalver, Elena Alcalde; Urbieta, Alexandra Santamaría - In: International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning … 8 (2018) 2, pp. 10-23
Nowadays, social networks (SN) are increasingly extended at a professional and personal level, and their use has also been included in educational contexts. In the field of translation and interpretation, in which this proposal is framed, the use of SN seems even more relevant, since working as...
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The Use of a Dynamic Screening of Phonological Awareness to Predict Reading Risk for Kindergarten Students
Bridges, Melinda Sittner - 2009
framework, all students receive periodic screening (i.e., universal screening) for risk for reading disabilities; those … indicated that the dynamic screening measure significantly improved the prediction of reading outcomes over and above the static … showed that the dynamic screening measure added significantly to the prediction of reading outcomes. Additional analyses …
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Education in Reading; 1960-1965
Reading (England) / Education Committee - 1966
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Large learning gains in pockets of extreme poverty : experimental evidence from Guinea Bissau
Fazzio, Ila; Eble, Alex; Lumsdaine, Robin L.; Boone, … - In: Journal of public economics 199 (2021), pp. 1-17
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Motivation and incentives in education : evidence from a summer reading experiment
Guryan, Jonathan; Kim, James S.; Park, Kyung H. - In: Economics of education review 55 (2016), pp. 1-20
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When evidence is not enough : findings from a randomized evaluation of Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction (EBLI)
Jacob, Brian Aaron - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 45 (2017), pp. 5-16
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Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read: A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines
Abeberese, Ama Baafra - eSocialSciences - 2011
An evaluation of a program that aims to improve children’s reading skills by providing classes with age …‐appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read‐athon. [Working paper No. 305]. URL: [http …
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Conducting Randomized Trials in School Settings: P4K.
Myers, David; Durno, Donna - Mathematica Policy Research - 2003
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Evaluation of Expeditionary Learning Middle Schools.
Mathematica Policy Research - 2013
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