We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the...

It is well established that teachers are the most important in-school factor in determining student outcomes. However, to date there is scant robust quantitative research demonstrating that teacher training programs can have lasting impacts on student test scores. To address this gap, we conduct...

In order to face the challenges imposed by a competitive society, you must be competitive, that means to satisfy the customer's requests to the highest standards. The academic education is no exception to the need for quality training of future generations of specialists able to cope with...

The study deals with a new aspect of training and development. By defining the validity and the competencies of the training method, the importance and the possible methodology of personality development are introduced. It is assumed that a mature personality, as a product of the individualizing...

The report presents all current challenges which the Bulgarian military-educational system is facing in the context of the basic features of the security environment and trends for the first half of the 20th century, by identifying the main problem areas in its functioning. The status and the...

It is well established that teachers are the most important in-school factor in determining student outcomes. However, to date there is scant robust quantitative research demonstrating that teacher training programs can have lasting impacts on student test scores. To address this gap, we conduct...

This study examines the effect of cooperative education, controlling for contextual support and demographic characteristics, on three dimensions of self-efficacy change: work, career, and academic. Of the three forms of self-efficacy, work self-efficacy was found to be the one efficacy form...

This chapter introduces readers to the broader network of strategies to which action learning may be considered an important hub. For very pragmatic purposes, action learning, according to the author, needs to link with its natural cousins, referred to as ‘action modalities.’ After providing...

An experiential exercise is presented to align emotions education and practice with state-of-the-art emotions research. Starting with a contextualization of how emotions have been used in management education and practice, a disconnect is revealed between these domains and current research. In...