Abstract Immigrant inflows to Europe have changed student compositions in and across schools. Despite the strong intuition that peers matter for outcomes, a comprehensive literature finds nil or moderate effects of immigrant peers. This study explores three reasons this mismatch. First, it uses quantile regressions reveal whether estimates on average outcome mask differential distribution. Seco...

Non-academic achievement refers to the positive learning quality, personality, and social adaptability students develop during process, which is essential for growth development. Can popular student-centered education assume responsibility of cultivating learners with excellent qualities extraordinary competencies, as expected by educators globally? Using a meta-analysis, we reviewed summarized...

The pedagogical beliefs (e.g., beliefs or "mindsets" concerning the malleability of intelligence) that teachers hold may have a far-reaching impact on their teaching behavior. In general, two basic mindsets can be distinguished with regard to the malleability of intelligence: fixed (entity) and growth (incremental). In this article, we present two studies investigating the associations between ...

Self-esteem is an important academic construct in the process of education. It is how people feel about themselves and how much they like themselves, especially socially and academically when it comes to college students. Through the many pressures and daunting responsibilities of being a student, one learns and understands the importance of having a high self-esteem in college. Research has es...

research in public policy centre for market and public organisation Student achievement and teacher turnover what is the link?

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This paper, which builds of the work of Hay, Kennedy, and Levin (1999), examines the puzzling aspectual behavior of so-called degree achievements. Drawing evidence from Mandarin Chinese, I argue that degree achievements without difference values denote punctual events, i.e., they are true achievements. I present an analysis that is consistent with facts from both English and Mandarin; to explai...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate the effect of clinical clerkship-associated achievements, such as performance of procedures at the student clinic, observation, and attitude towards a clerkship, on the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) scores of dental students graduating in restorative dentistry. MATERIALS AND METHODS The OSCEs consisted of two stations designed to a...

This study explored student teachers’ cognitive presence and learning achievements by integrating the SOP Model in which self-study (S), online group discussion (O) and double-stage presentations (P) were implemented in the flipped classroom. The research was conducted at a university in Taiwan with 31 student teachers. Preand post-worksheets measuring knowledge of educational issues were admin...