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screening tests on low-performing students. While we demonstrate no negative effects on student welfare, we do find an … indication that testing improves aspects of teaching practices and students' perceptions of teacher feedback and engagement. …
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This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three … immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the … organise their educational systems, have a crucial bearing on how immigrant students affect their peers. …
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Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often depends on feedback received from other parents. Therefore it is important to understand whether parental satisfaction with the school depends only on objective measures of the...
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Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often depends on feedback received from other parents. Therefore, it is important to understand whether parental satisfaction with the school depends only on objective measures of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013449390
The present study investigated the parental involvement of the Filipino mothers and fathers on their child’s school-related behaviors. The study made use of Tan’s (1989) typology of fathers (procreator, dillitante, determinative, and generative) and Umali-Razon’s (1981) typology of mothers...
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This paper tests how the race and ethnicity of one's college classmates affect academic performance. Incoming students … characteristics, I find evidence of racial peer effects that differ for white students and students of color. White students earn … higher grades in classes with more students of color. Students of color with more non-white classmates earn lower grades …
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important as teacher assignment for student learning. Furthermore, they have a relatively larger impact on students from …
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This paper examines how skills are shaped by social interactions in families. We show that older siblings causally affect younger sibling's education choices and early career earnings. We focus on critical course choices in high school and overcome the identification challenges of estimating...
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