This paper analyzes grading competition between instructors of elective courses when students shop for high course …. First, the school caps top scores directly. Then, grading competition divides students into a concentrated group of … flexible curriculum. Hence, all students will prefer rigid curricula. Third, the school requires that the mean-score ceiling is …

. This study estimates the effect of class size on academic performance of university students, distinguishing between STEM …,000 students and a total of more than 190,000 observations, spanning six cohorts of first-year undergraduate students across all … the effect along the dimensions of students' socio-economic status, ability, and gender, finding that in STEM disciplines …

and years. I study a mandatory freshmen week for first-year undergraduates and exploit the random assignment of students ….e. very high or low levels of average peer ability in a group harm students' grades. These effects are most pronounced for low …-ability students. …

This article aims to quantify the degree in which Romanian students’ rights and interests are protected. The authors … by a quantitative research among students within these centres. Through an exploratory empirical research of a … quantitative type, 438 students were interviewed, the results obtained determining the extent in which study programs pursued by …

application decisions of men and women. After the reform, fewer students applied to higher education and the reform especially …

. This study estimates the effect of class size on academic performance of university students, distinguishing between STEM …,000 students and a total of more than 190,000 observations, spanning six cohorts of first-year undergraduate students across all … of the effect along the dimensions of students' socio-economic status, ability, and gender, finding that in STEM …

of a two-day freshman orientation program for university students, I find that higher ability peers generate positive … students by 0.05 to 0.08 SD. I provide evidence that the effects result from the formation of lasting social ties, and that …

weekly earnings. Utilizing the fact that colleges dismiss low-performing students based on exact GPA cutoffs, we use a … regression discontinuity design to estimate the earnings impacts of college. Dismissed students are permitted to apply for … readmission, but since relatively few do so, these students end up completing fewer years of school and are approximately 10 …

Each year, millions of Chinese high school students sit the National College Entrance Examination (CEE). For the … majority of students, the CEE score is the single determinant in whether they gain admission into a college and to what college … college grades. However, we do not find consistent results as to which CEE subject test scores predict students’ academic …

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 …