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This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of primary school in Germany's early ability tracking system. Our results show that the need...
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This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary research designs exploiting differences in school track admission rules at the end of primary school in Germany's early ability tracking system. Our results show that the need...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012504508
research, so that the expected findings may bring more benefits for the development and advancement of education world … improve the quality of education in the City of Medan in general and in particular. …
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss how US institutions of higher education make appreciable use of work …‐based learning options, but their attention to experiential education as a learning vehicle is relatively limited. The connection …
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Although academic provision has become associated with professional education, knowledge is delivered through standard … classroom methodology associated with liberal arts education. Elsewhere, a "practice turn" has elevated experience as a basis …
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The neoclassical growth model was extended by Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992) to estimate the level effects of additional factors like human capital. We suggest a further extension to capture their permanent growth effects. Time series data from Fiji are used to show that the growth effect of...
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-day school are investigated. An extension of the model explores how an education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families …
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-need not delay reforms in higher education. In fact, the global recession is an opportune time for higher education in the Asia … efficiency, and regional collaboration. This paper proposes a series of measures to increase the resilience of higher education … programs of study; (iii) community-based vocational and technical higher education that provides jobs in a rapidly changing …
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(European Higher Education Area), is applied to three aspects which need to be identified in order to a better understanding of …
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education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families of a community manages to initiate a bandwagon effect towards … "education for all". The optimal mechanism design of such a targeted transfer program is investigated. …
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