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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students : a story of language or ethnicity?
Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2016
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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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students : a story of language or ethnicity?
Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 6 (2016) 2, pp. 1-18
There is a perception among native born parents in the USA 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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619201
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Conditional gender peer effects?
Iversen, Jon Marius Vaag; Bonesrønning, Hans - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 55 (2015), pp. 19-28
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The impact of self-selection on performance
Kiessling, Lukas; Radbruch, Jonas; Schaube, Sebastian - 2018
In many natural environments, carefully chosen peers influence individual behavior. In this paper, we examine how self-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We conduct a field experiment in physical education classes at secondary schools. Students participate...
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Chapter 15 Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn – Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure
Bishop, John - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 909-944). 2006
Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to devote to learning per year and (d) Whether to disrupt or assist the learning of classmates. The thousands of studies that have applied human capital theory to the first two...
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The effect of sharing a mother tongue with peers : evidence from North Carolina middle schools
Ahn, Thomas; Jepsen, Christopher - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper provides the first analysis of the relationship between the language mix of Limited English Proficient (LEP) peers and student achievement, using detailed panel data from 2006 to 2012. Percent LEP has a negative association with mathematics and reading test scores, more so for non-LEP...
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The effectiveness of teamwork for student academic outcomes : evidence from a field experiment
Banerjee, Ritwik; Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Cassese, Daniele; … - 2024
An enduring question in education is whether team-based peer learning methods help improve learning outcomes among students. We randomly assign around 10,000 middle school students in Karnataka, India, to alternative peer learning treatments in Math and English that vary the intensity of...
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Does classroom gender composition affect school dropout?
Anil, Bulent; Güner, Duygu; Delibasi, Tuba Toru; … - 2016
Measuring the gender peer effects on student achievement has recently attracted a lot of attention in the literature … increases the academic achievement of all students. Nevertheless, the identification of pure gender effects remains a challenge … paper disentangles pure "academic" peer effects and "gender" peer effects. Our estimations reveal that the higher the share …
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Early-years multi-grade classes and pupil attainment
Borbely, Daniel; Gehrsitz, Markus; McIntyre, Stuart; … - 2021
groups of pupils to multi-grade classes. We find that school-starters benefit from exposure to second-graders in measures of …
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Ability grouping and student performance : experimental evidence from middle schools in Mexico
Busso, Matias; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2023
This article relies on a large-scale field experiment in Mexico to measure the effects of two ability-grouping models (tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during middle school. Both strategies yielded an average learning gain of 0.08 of a standard deviation....
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