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Collection of data on academic outcomes among Indigenous students is a necessary step towards bridging the education … gap between Indigenous and non-indigenous students, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Measuring … Student Outcomes: The Case for Identifying Indigenous Students in Canada's PISA Sample,” authors John Richards and Parisa …
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We investigate the impact of an ambitious provincial school reform in Canada on students. mathematical achievements …. Second, we can differentiate impacts according to the number of years students are affected by the reform. Third, our data … students' mathematical achievements at all points of the skills distribution …
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This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …
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-message coaching program – in a sample of over 3,000 undergraduate students at a large Canadian university. Supplementing … program effects on students' non-academic outcomes, despite estimating null effects on course grades and credit accumulation …
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What are the perceptions of employers towards hiring immigrants and international students in Atlantic Canada? How are … harder working than local workers are more likely to report hiring or intending to hire newcomers and international students … Although most employers report positive attitudes towards newcomers and international students, employers who report …
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benefits of an extra year of high school for high-ability students (those bound for college), rather than dropouts. I present a …-ability students: students coming out of Grade 13 have a 2.2 point advantage (on a 100 point scale) over students from Grade 12, the …
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