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COVID-19 and the European education performance decline : a focus on primary school children's reading achievement between 2016 and 2021
Schnepf, Sylke Viola; Granato, Silvia - 2023
education performance decline in Europe by providing information on 20 year reading achievement trends, average performance … Europe by first comparing countries' education distributions between 2016 and 2021 and second by investigating changes in the …
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The effect of community traumatic events on student achievement : evidence from the Beltway Sniper attacks
Gershenson, Seth; Tekin, Erdal - 2015
teacher and student absences, school closures, and disturbances to usual classroom routines. Similarly, they might also … to the attacks. The main results indicate that the attacks significantly reduced school-level proficiency rates in … grade math proficiency, suggesting that the shootings caused a decline in school proficiency rates of about five to nine …
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Peer gender and mental health
Getik, Demid; Meier, Armando N. - 2020
mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012309783
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Racial diversity and school performance : a school location approach
Angioloni, Simone; Ames, Glenn C. W. - In: The review of regional studies : a joint publ. of the … 45 (2015) 3, pp. 253-277
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What Is wrong with ability-tracking?
Esser, Hartmut - 2024
, structuring of school classes and educational achievement in secondary school. For educational attainment, there was an increase … in achievement at the end of elementary school and greater equality of achievement at the transition without an increase … in social inequality. The structuring of school classes showed a decoupling of cognitive and social segregation. And for …
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Class size, student performance and Tiebout bias
Jirjahn, Uwe; Pfeifer, Christian; Tsertsvadze, Georgi - In: Applied economics letters 16 (2009) 10/12, pp. 1049-1052
If students tend to choose instructors with high teaching ability, a negative link between class size and student performance may remain obscured until this kind of sorting has been taken into account. Using data from student evaluation surveys, we confirm that it is crucial to control for...
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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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Test-Mex : estimating the effects of school year length on student performance in Mexico
Agüero, Jorge M.; Beleche, Trinidad - In: Journal of development economics 103 (2013), pp. 353-361
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Student mobility in low quality schools : segmentation among the most vulnerable students
Román, Marcela; Perticará, Marcela - In: Estudios de economía 39 (2012) 2, pp. 159-177
rates in these schools is almost 11%. Almost 30% of the students who change schools go to a school of the same or worse …
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The impact of better school accessibility on student outcomes
Asahi, Kenzo - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361866