Do More Effective Teachers Earn More Outside the Classroom?

Why Do Married Men Earn More than Unmarried Men?

Previous research reported that married men, ceteris paribus, earn more than unmarried men. A variety of explanations have been suggested for this association One class of explanation argues that wives, for various reasons, increase their husbands’ wages. Another class of explanation maintains that the causality is reversed, that is, high wage men are more likely to get married than low income ...

Do the Emotionally More Intelligent Gain More from Metacognitive Writing Strategy Training?

Though privileges ascribed to various facets of language learning strategy training have long been espoused with regard to varied language skills and components, the role some individual variables such as emotional intelligence might play in this respect seems to have received very scant attention. The researchers in the current study embarked on a probe into the impact of metacognitive strateg...

Ramadan fasting: Do we need more evidence?

Over a billion of Muslims fast worldwide during Ramadan each year. Through this religious custom, fasting contributes to their health as well as their spiritual growth. However, available evidence regarding the health-benefits of Ramadan fasting is scarce and highly contentious. Although Islam exempts patients from fasting, many fast conceivably, and their clinical condition is prone to deterio...

Classroom Experiments: Is More More?

Over the last 20 years, a considerable literature on the efficacy of classroom economics experiments in promoting student achievement has developed. Researchers find that student achievement is generally enhanced (or at least unharmed) by exposure to a pedagogy utilizing classroom experiments. While these findings have encouraged the adoption of classroom experiments, questions remain perhaps m...

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