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Grouping University Students Using Social Network Analysis
Pronin, Alexander; Veretennik, Elena; Semyonov, Alexander - In: Educational Studies (2014) 3, pp. 54-73
Alexander Pronin - Senior Teacher, Faculty of Management, National Research University - Higher School of Economics … Research University - Higher School of Economics (Saint Petersburg). E-mail: veretennik@hse.ruAlexander Semyonov - Independent … Management at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics (Saint Petersburg) consisted in reorganizing four …
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Does Private Tutoring Increase Students' Academic Performance? Evidence from Turkey
Berberoglu, Giray; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
other variables such as interest in and perception of academic success, high school graduation fields of study, high school … that more research on the impact of further important variables needs to be done, their view is that school seems to be an …
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School System And Educational Policy In A Highly Stratified Post-Soviet Society: The Importance Of Social Context
Kosaretsky, Sergey G.; Grunicheva, Irina G.; Pinskaya, … - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014
This article presents the results of a study on Russian education policy. It explores how compulsory and secondary education meet contemporary social challenges, and how they should be adjusted to account for acute social inequality. The authors present evidence of the growing social...
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Contextualizing Academic Performance In Russian Schools: School Characteristics, The Composition Of Student Body And Local Deprivation
Yasterbov, Gordey A.; Bessudnov, Alexey R.; Pinskaya, … - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014
particular, we investigate how a school’s average Unified State Examination (USE) scores in Russian and mathematics relate to the …-level hierarchical regression model to analyze data from school profiles collected in two Russian regions (Yaroslavskaya Oblast’ and … Moskovskaya Oblast’) during the 2011-12 academic year. Both social characteristics of the student body and the school’s material …
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The use (and misuse) of Pisa in guiding policy reform: the case of Spain
Choi, Álvaro; Jerrim, John - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2015
; educational achievement is low in Spain (and educational inequalities large) long before children enter secondary school. This …
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Household assets, academic expectations, and academic performance among Ghanaian junior high school students: Investigating mediation
Ansong, David; Chowa, Gina A.; Sherraden, Michael - In: Children and Youth Services Review 50 (2015) C, pp. 101-110
ownership and the academic performance of junior high school students in Ghana. Using the asset-effect framework as a …
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GMAT Scores and Performance: Selecting Students into a Graduate Management School
Marks, Robert; Watt, Peter; Yetton, Philip - In: Australian Journal of Management 6 (1981) 2, pp. 81-102
Research shows that scores on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) are positively correlated with academic performance at graduate management schools. This study replicates this finding on Australian data and extends the analysis to cover performance at the individual course level as...
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Academic performance and the Great Recession
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Tanzi, Giulia Martina - Banca d'Italia - 2014
In this paper we study how the Great Recession affected university students in terms of performance, with a focus on the drop-out probability. To do so, we use individual-level data on a representative sample of university students in Italy in 2007 and 2011. We measure the severity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105134
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Factors Influencing Selection of University by Working People in Pakistan.
Bhamani, Shelina; Bhamani, Shamira - In: KASBIT Journal of Management & Social Science 7 (2014) 2, pp. 35-46
The major aim of the study is to explore the effect of present law and order situation of Karachi on academic performance. This study was designed to evaluate the impact of present deteriorating situation on teaching-learning process and on academic achievement. The target population of the...
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Promptness and Academic Performance
Novarese, Marco; Di Giovinazzo, Viviana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This article uses university administration data to investigate the relation between student behavior (rapid response in finalizing enrolment procedures) and academic performance. It shows how student promptness in enrolling, or lack of it, can prove a useful forecast of academic success....
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