measures for improving of financial education. In case those university students have a higher level of financial literacy they …

mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …

This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca' Foscari … University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students' grade point averages and time to graduation. The set … of independent variables contains information on students' personal characteristics, prior academic achievements, family …

learning styles students may innately possess, many aspects of diversity impact the way they learn. Despite having diverse … students, information literacy instructors in urban universities may approach teaching by attempting to reach the “average … student,” even when there is little to no homogeneity among students. A differentiated instruction approach invites …

that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we … find evidence that men indeed score significantly higher on the test when graded on a curve. Female students, irrespective …

position to compete with other Thia-students and international students. In Thailand, educational institutes are competing each … academic achievements of low grade commerce students. Results of the study revealed that there were no significant developments …

While nearly all colleges and universities in the United States use academic probation as a means to signal to students … college may serve as a short term "wake up call" to some students, in that second semester performance is improved. However …, our findings also suggest that this short term boost in performance fades out over time and students who are on academic …