This paper estimates the effect of school and student characteristics on academic performance. Using data for 2002, the paper applies stochastic frontier techniques to estimate the level of technical efficiency of a sample of 4,542 public and private schools. Our findings indicate that both...

Estimating the impact of changing school inputs on student performance is often difficult because these inputs are endogenously determined. We investigate a quasi-experiment that altered the number of instructional days prior to a nationwide test in Mexico. Our exogenous source of variation...

Se presenta un análisis crítico a la evolución del sistema científico y la comunidad académica de laRepública Bolivariana de Venezuela, teniendo como horizonte temporal la última década, la cualcoincide con la presencia del gobierno revolucionario. De esta manera, se abordan las...

The literature on adaptive learning suggests that it can provide significant improvements to the educational process and numerous studies have found a necessity for personalised learning, which is one of the strong suits of adaptive learning. Adaptive learning platforms require that content be...

This paper explores factors that contribute to growth in undergraduate knowledge of economics. An endogenous growth empirical model was applied to estimate students’ knowledge growth. Sources of knowledge growth were extracted to identify each factor’s contribution. Analysis indicated that...

An extraordinary proliferation of entrepreneurship courses and programs was and still is underway in colleges and universities worldwide. In Europe this phenomenon has been further stimulated by the focus on Entrepreneurship as key objective for the implementation of the Europe2020 strategy (EC,...

Appropriate assessment is of major importance for universities today. Many faculty perceive assessment as already occurring through grade assignment. This paper investigates grades versus knowledge of learning objectives as forms of assessment. By analyzing the relationship between examination...

The literature on adaptive learning suggests that it can provide significant improvements to the educational process and numerous studies have found a necessity for personalised learning, which is one of the strong suits of adaptive learning. Adaptive learning platforms require that content be...