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In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies …. The reform replaced parents choice about their children s secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our …
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motivation on learning achievements, (3) to know the influence of the school environment on learning achievements. The population … in the study was grade X and XI students in high school. To answer the hypothesis in this study using multiple regression … learning achievement; and (4) There are influences of self efficacy influence, learning motivation, and school environment to …
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In this paper, I use a unique dataset linking administrative school data with birth records to quantify the importance …
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Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to … effects on learning or dropout rates but they do appear to have positive effects on the reputation of high school graduates … not internalize the externalities that are pervasive in school settings and as a result students typically devote less …
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, demographics, home address moves, and school changes - with real estate records indicating whether the student lived at an address … school-level (by grade and year) student mobility - that is, inflows of new students to a school during the school year …. We find fairly robust evidence that higher student mobility at a school, induced by residential moves, imposes …
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The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight decline in performance solely for students at the top...
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There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...
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other variables such as interest in and perception of academic success, high school graduation fields of study, high school … that more research on the impact of further important variables needs to be done, their view is that school seems to be an …
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This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the introduction of a Writing Center at a university. The center has the purpose to provide subject-specific courses that aim to improve students‘ abilities of scientific writing. In order to deal with presumed self perceptional biases of students in...
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We explore the forces that shape the development of aspirations and the achievement of grades during high school and …
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