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in ethnomathematics is stronger among Ngäbere-speaking students and for students whose teachers identify as Ngäbe …In this article we evaluate the effectiveness of ethnomathematics education among indigenous children: the JADENKÄ … the Ngäbe preschoolers in Ngäbe-Buglé, a comarca in Panama. The results of our experiment suggest that the program has …
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foreign origin students, surprisingly little is known about the effect of having a foreign origin teacher on students … skills of students in German secondary school, holding constant both observed and unobserved factors related to academic … first to show that foreign origin teachers significantly increase the reading comprehension of students. Most notable is the …
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This study is the first empirical analysis to identify the causal effect of a separate preparatory language learning class on the academic success of newly immigrated primary school-aged children in comparison to their direct integration into regular classrooms. Employing unique administrative...
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In this paper I demonstrate, both theoretically and empirically, that the interpretation of regression estimates of between-group differences in economic outcomes depends on the relative sizes of subpopulations under study. When the disadvantaged group is small, regression estimates are similar...
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argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … Germany. We find that while students on average reduced their daily learning time of 7.4 hours by about half, the reduction …
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argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … Germany. We find that while students on average reduced their daily learning time of 7.4 hours by about half, the reduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305957
argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … Germany. We find that while students on average reduced their daily learning time of 7.4 hours by about half, the reduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332257
and environment, impacting students' efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top … and labour market outcomes. The rule creates two potential effects on students: peer and ranking effects. The last student … analyses separately for affirmative action students and regular students. The main results suggest that affirmative action …
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Immigrants change the school environment. A focus has been on negative spillovers on native students' educational … foreign language acquisition focusing on Norway. In Norway all students are taught, and are assessed, in English from an early … age. We demonstrate that exposure to native English-speaking peers increase Norwegian students' English language skills …
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This study investigates whether foreign origin teachers causally affect their students language skills in secondary … of immigrants significantly increase the reading comprehension of students. The effect is strongest for foreign origin … students and can partly be explained by a role model effect. The positive effect of bilingual foreign origin teachers is …
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