How do parents’ educational fields affect the choice of educational field?

HOW DO MOTHERS’ EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTS AFFECT THE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OF THE NEXT GENERATION?* (Preliminary)

How Does Peer Pressure Affect Educational Investments?

When effort is observable to peers, students may try to avoid social penalties by conforming to prevailing norms. To test this hypothesis, we first consider a natural experiment that introduced a performance leaderboard into computer-based high school courses. The result was a 24 percent performance decline. The decline appears to be driven by a desire to avoid the leaderboard; top performing s...

Do Students Learn More Where Parents Have More Educational Choices?

Educational freedom is sometimes accused of being an ideological term, so let me frame it in an analytic context. There have been several school choice experiments in the last few years. These experiments had a structure that yielded quality results because students were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. Some students by chance received scholarships to attend private schools an...

the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality

this thesis is about the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality.

the relationship between using language learning strategies, learners’ optimism, educational status, duration of learning and demotivation

with the growth of more humanistic approaches towards teaching foreign languages, more emphasis has been put on learners’ feelings, emotions and individual differences. one of the issues in teaching and learning english as a foreign language is demotivation. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the components of language learning strategies, optimism, duration o...