Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to … that tracking can have positive effects on student learning, inaccurate placement has consequences: students face … alternative system to place students that uses predictive analytics to combine multiple measures into a placement instrument …

Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to … that tracking can have positive effects on student learning, inaccurate placement has consequences: students face … alternative system to place students that uses predictive analytics to combine multiple measures into a placement instrument …

An enduring question in education is whether team-based peer learning methods help improve learning outcomes among … students. We randomly assign around 10,000 middle school students in Karnataka, India, to alternative peer learning treatments … statistically and economically significant for students at the bottom of the ability distribution. We develop theoretical conditions …

first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability … colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability … colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to … that tracking can have positive effects on student learning, inaccurate placement has consequences: students face … alternative system to place students that uses predictive analytics to combine multiple measures into a placement instrument …

This paper studies the impact of a lottery-based desegregation program that allows minority students to transfer to … such a program receiving students, this paper studies the effects on participating students. In the short run, students who … receive an offer to transfer are more likely to be classified as requiring special education and their test scores increase in …

Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to … that tracking can have positive effects on student learning, inaccurate placement has consequences: students face … alternative system to place students that uses predictive analytics to combine multiple measures into a placement instrument …

field experiment, I expose more than 5,000 German students either to general information on federally funded scholarships or …If information asymmetries prevent talented students of non-academic backgrounds from applying for merit-based aid, the … whether information asymmetries exist and decrease students’ likelihood to apply for merit-based scholarships. In a randomized …

Although the proportion of students enrolled in college increased in the last decades, students from non-college family … backgrounds remain underrepresented in higher education around the world. This study sheds light on whether the provision of … information in a randomized controlled trial with more than 1,000 German high school students results in higher college enrollment …