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"A" is the aim?
Danilowicz-Gösele, Kamila - 2016
This paper analyzes professors' effect from a fundamental first-year course in Economics on students' later performance in follow-on courses with a special attention given to the problem of self-selection bias of students toward certain professors. Based on an extensive dataset consisting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563302
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Class size: does it matter for student achivement? : smaller classes are often associated with increased achievement, but the evidence is far from universal
Jepsen, Christopher - 2015
Numerous economic studies have considered the relationship between class size and student achievement, the majority of which have focused on elementary schools in the US and Europe. While the general finding is that smaller classes are associated with increased student achievement, a few...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433601
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Do STEM students vote?
Bell, D'Wayne; Feng, Jing; Holbein, John B.; Smith, Jonathan - 2022
.e., STEM) fields. However, the research supporting this conclusion has faced distinct challenges in terms of data quality. Does … STEM actually decrease the odds that young people will be actively involved in democracy? This paper assesses the … relationship between studying STEM and voting. To do so, we create a dataset of over 23 million students in the U.S. matched to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013343350
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Do STEM Students Vote?
Bell, D'Wayne; Feng, Jing; Holbein, John B.; Smith, Jonathan - 2022
.e., STEM) fields. However, the research supporting this conclusion has faced distinct challenges in terms of data quality. Does … STEM actually decrease the odds that young people will be actively involved in democracy? This paper assesses the … relationship between studying STEM and voting. To do so, we create a dataset of over 23 million students in the U.S. matched to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426332
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STEM on demand: Can current state of higher education infrastructure meet expectations?
Jahic, Hatidza; Pilav-Velic, Amila - In: Naše gospodarstvo / Our Economy 66 (2020) 3, pp. 48-55
current state of higher education and the demand for research, innovation and a robust STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering … research that will lead to further collaborations and innovations in STEM. Universities are primarily seen as a source of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014520581
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STEM on demand : can current state of higher education infrastructure meet expectations?
Jahic, Hatidza; Pilav-Velic, Amila - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 66 (2020) 3, pp. 48-55
current state of higher education and the demand for research, innovation and a robust STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering … research that will lead to further collaborations and innovations in STEM. Universities are primarily seen as a source of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317823
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Class size: Does it matter for student achievement?
Jepsen, Christopher - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Numerous economic studies have considered the relationship between class size and student achievement, the majority of which have focused on elementary schools in the US and Europe. While the general finding is that smaller classes are associated with increased student achievement, a few...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405024
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Class size versus class composition: What matters for learning in East Africa?
Jones, Sam - 2013
Raising schooling quality in low-income countries is a pressing challenge. Substantial research has considered the impact of cutting class sizes on skills acquisition. Considerably less attention has been given to the extent to which peer effects, which refer to class composition, also may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319833
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Class size versus class composition : what matters for learning in East Africa?
Jones, Sam - 2013
Raising schooling quality in low-income countries is a pressing challenge. Substantial research has considered the impact of cutting class sizes on skills acquisition. Considerably less attention has been given to the extent to which peer effects, which refer to class composition, also may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757270
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Did the "Bologna Process" achieve its goals? : 20 years of empirical evidence on student enrolment, study success and labour market outcomes
Kroher, Martina; Leuze, Kathrin; Thomsen, Stephan L.; … - 2021
In 1999, the "Bologna Process" was initiated to improve higher education enrolment, study success and students' employability across Europe, mainly by introducing the two-cycle degree structure of Bachelor (BA) and Master (MA). More than 20 years later, we examine whether these goals were met by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648244