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Many universities around the world rely on student instructors — current bachelor's and master's degree students — for … students, we show that student instructors are almost as effective as senior instructors at improving their students' short … can serve as an effective tool for universities to reduce their costs with negligible negative effects on students …
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Using detailed Danish administrative data covering the entire population of students entering higher education in the … students' drop out decisions as well as later labor market outcomes. Overall, we find that a one standard deviation increase in … for lower ability students. …
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schools that did not have a history of sending students to the flagship campuses. Our analysis reveals an increase in the … likelihood that high schools in non-suburban areas sent students to the flagship campuses, but ultimately little to no equity … schools on the flagship campuses continued to dwarf the population of students from other high schools. Thus, the purported …
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I show how local supply changes create ripple effects in a national educational market. Admitting an applicant to a program will free up a slot to be filled at her next-best alternative. To investigate such substitution effects I re-engineer the centralized admission system of the Danish...
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paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …
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paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …
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Dual-credit courses expose high school students to college-level content and provide the opportunity to earn college … that the dual-credit advanced algebra course alters students' subsequent high school math course-taking, reducing … effect of the dual-credit math course on overall rates of college enrollment. However, the course induces some students to …
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of investment is pre-entry courses. However, such strategy improves USE results only for students from the most affluent …
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which challenging long-term tasks are completed. Providing university students with ongoing relative feedback on accumulated … among students with medium pre-treatment graduation probabilities: when these students are informed about an above …
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subsequently propose that students from the most affluent households do invest more in additional types of preparation (pre … income group. Finally, we show that holding the result of the USE equal, students with good and fair marks from wealthy …
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