While nearly all colleges and universities in the United States use academic probation as a means to signal to students … college may serve as a short term "wake up call" to some students, in that second semester performance is improved. However …, our findings also suggest that this short term boost in performance fades out over time and students who are on academic …

Qualitätswettbewerb um den "Kunden" Studenten abgeholfen werden. Student(inn)en müßten dann allerdings bei der Wahl ihrer Hochschule …

where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building …

the probability of being chronically absent by about three percentage points (21%). For black students, random assignment … students' attendance habits. …

of universities in their ability to attract better students in Russia. We examined the impact of three groups of factors … to define their strategic development and attract better students. …