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In research into higher education, the evaluation of completion and dropout rates has generated a steady stream of interest for decades. While most studies only calculate quotes using student and graduate numbers for both phenomena, we propose to also consider the budget available to...
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. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …
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. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …
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The paper presents the results of research related to students' perception of enhancing their critical thinking during … public universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) in order to investigate students' perception of enhancing their critical … is to find if BH students are aware of the necessity to enhance their critical thinking abilities during their studies in …
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paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …
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paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …
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setting where students are randomly assigned to a university instructor's first, second, third or fourth lesson on the same … teachers' preparation time without negative effects on students. …
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average quality of students enrolled following the reform. Additionally, the policy contributed to an increase in on …
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This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …
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