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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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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 solicitude in enrolment, or a lack of it, can be a useful forecast of academic success. Several...
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In this paper we study how the Great Recession affected university students in terms of performance, with a special focus on the dropout 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...
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Although not exclusive to the Republic of Korea’s educational system, the pervasiveness of private tutoring, and its consequences, serve to distinguish it from systems operated in other countries. However, the identification of inefficiencies linked to this phenomenon have seen the educational...
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The paper discusses the impact of the use of Facebook as a supporting learning platform for a course in Mathematics at the undergraduate level. After the examination of some critical issues of Facebook in a learning framework, we analyze data on the usage the page (total reach and number of...
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The analysis of performance indicators of university students has become of wide interest expecially in Italy where, over the last few decades, graduation rates have been well below the average of both European and OECD countries. This paper proposes an alternative method to jointly estimate the...
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this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children’s academic performance in junior high school …
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Michigan radically altered its school finance system in 1994. The new plan, called Proposal A, significantly increased … state aid to the lowest-spending school districts and limited future increases in spending in the highest-spending ones …, abolishing local discretion over school spending. I investigate the impact of Proposal A on the distribution of resources and …
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” might be explained by school and demographic characteristics. This article takes a step toward filling that void using data … from New York City where 17 percent of elementary and middle school students are immigrants. We explore disparities in … student and school characteristics. Further, while the nativity gap differs for students from different world regions …
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performance of American high school students in recent decades. High school students are increasingly underprepared for transition … into college-level course-work. One new approach to high school redesign, “early college,” seeks to address these issues … fourteen. Early college is a subset of dual enrollment programs providing opportunities for students to complete high school …
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