university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that students become more similar to their peers … along several dimensions. Students with more competitive peers become more competitive, students with more open-minded peers … become more open-minded, and students with more conscientious peers become more conscientious. We see no significant effects …

university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that students become more similar to their peers … along several dimensions. Students with more competitive peers become more competitive, students with more open-minded peers … become more open-minded, and students with more conscientious peers become more conscientious. We see no significant effects …

Social theories posit that peers affect students' academic self-concept (ASC). Most prominently, Big …-Fish-Little-Pond, invidious comparison, and relative deprivation theories predict that exposure to academically stronger peers decreases students …' ASC, and exposure to academically weaker peers increases students' ASC. These propositions have not yet been tested …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …

Dual-credit courses expose high school students to college-level content and provide the opportunity to earn college … that the dual-credit advanced algebra course alters students' subsequent high school math course-taking, reducing … effect of the dual-credit math course on overall rates of college enrollment. However, the course induces some students to …

role models on female preferences for STEM majors. We conduct a randomized control trial where female senior students … selected high schools. We find that exposure to this treatment increases high ability female students' preferences for … engineering programs by 14 percentage points. The effect is only statistically significant for the subgroup of female students …

single-sex versus mixed classrooms on students’ achievement. Despite the vast yet inconclusive literature on single …-majority countries where single-sex education is prevalent. Empirical findings show that when students’ characteristics and educational …-medium-ability male students performing significantly better in all-male classrooms. …

Dual-credit courses expose high school students to college-level content and provide the opportunity to earn college … that the dual-credit advanced algebra course alters students' subsequent high school math course-taking, reducing … effect of the dual-credit math course on overall rates of college enrollment. However, the course induces some students to …

which challenging long-term tasks are completed. Providing university students with ongoing relative feedback on accumulated … among students with medium pre-treatment graduation probabilities: when these students are informed about an above …

due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small groups, in alternating weeks with and without a more senior … student tutor. The treatment improved study behavior and increased contact to other students. Tutored students achieved around …