performance in undergraduate studies programs. The paper analyzes performance of economics and business administration students …) differential progress through time, and (ii) differences in the extent to which students have areas of interest/ability. The paper …

competition at a higher level. Students are diverted towards doing higher courses offered by numerous institutes, universities … day. Various measures are taken by educators and stakeholders to reduce the intensity of failure of students. Educational … data mining is a new term coined in the sector of education to predict the performance of students in academics and to …

track students. However, there are concerns that the most frequently used college placement exams lack validity and … reliability, and unnecessarily place students from under-represented groups into remedial courses. While recent research has shown … that tracking can have positive effects on student learning, inaccurate placement has consequences: students face …

Value-added models (VAMs) are increasingly used to measure school effectiveness. Yet random variation in school … schools. In this paper, I use random assignment from a public school choice lottery to test the predictive power of VAM … specifications. In VAMs with minimal controls and two or more years of prior data, I fail to reject the hypothesis that school …