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Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?

by Joshua D. Angrist, Alan B. Krueger , 1990
"... This paper presents evidence showing that individuals' season of birth is related to their educational attainment because of the combined effects of school start age policy and compulsory school attendance laws. In most school districts, individuals born in the beginning of the year start sc ..."
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This paper presents evidence showing that individuals' season of birth is related to their educational attainment because of the combined effects of school start age policy and compulsory school attendance laws. In most school districts, individuals born in the beginning of the year start

Inside the black box: Raising standards through classroom assessment

by Paul Black, Dylan Wiliam - Phi Delta Kappan , 1998
"... Raising the standards of learning that are achieved through school education is an important national priority. Governments have been vigorous in the last ten years in making changes in pursuit of this aim. National curriculum testing, the development of the GCSE, league tables of school performance ..."
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Raising the standards of learning that are achieved through school education is an important national priority. Governments have been vigorous in the last ten years in making changes in pursuit of this aim. National curriculum testing, the development of the GCSE, league tables of school

Improvement; *Urban Schools

by Da Costa, Jose L. Marshall, Jody L. Riordan, Jose L. Da Costa, Jody L. Marshall
"... This study focused on innercity elementary school staff perceptions of the process they engaged in, which emerged from the principal's initiative to move the school culture in a more collaborative direction and thus further develop pedagogical practice and student social and academic growth. Re ..."
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. Research in this case study involved observations and semi-structured interviews with all staff members at one school. Researchers completed interviews twice during the 1997-1998 school year. The interviews emphasized perceived changes that were being implemented at the school as a result of government

Natural Selection

by Belcher Christopher D. Williams , 1992
"... This study examined how middle science teachers perceive the textbooks they use and how their perceptions varied with their personal attributes and professional backgrounds. A questionnaire was sent to 79 middle school science teachers in Missouri, and 66 responded. The questionnaire was designed to ..."
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This study examined how middle science teachers perceive the textbooks they use and how their perceptions varied with their personal attributes and professional backgrounds. A questionnaire was sent to 79 middle school science teachers in Missouri, and 66 responded. The questionnaire was designed

Intelligent Tutoring Goes to School in the Big City

by Kenneth R. Koedinger, John R. Anderson, William H. Hadley, Mary A. Mark - International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education , 1997
"... Abstract. This paper reports on a large-scale experiment introducing and evaluating intelligent tutoring in an urban High School setting. Critical to the success of this project has been a client-centered design approach that has matched our client's expertise in curricular objectives and class ..."
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an intelligent tutor, called PAT, that supports this curriculum and has been made a regular part of 9th grade Algebra in 3 Pittsburgh schools. In the 1993-94 school year, we evaluated the effect of the PUMP curriculum and PAT tutor use. On average the 470 students in experimental classes outperformed students

Technical Change, Inequality, and The Labor Market

by Daron Acemoglu - Journal of Economic Literature , 2002
"... This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill-biased during the past sixty years. Furthermore, the recent increase in inequality is most likely due to an acceleration ..."
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This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill-biased during the past sixty years. Furthermore, the recent increase in inequality is most likely due to an acceleration

The Determinants of Credit Spread Changes.

by Pierre Collin-Dufresne , Robert S Goldstein , J Spencer Martin , Gurdip Bakshi , Greg Bauer , Dave Brown , Francesca Carrieri , Peter Christoffersen , Susan Christoffersen , Greg Duffee , Darrell Duffie , Vihang Errunza , Gifford Fong , Mike Gallmeyer , Laurent Gauthier , Rick Green , John Griffin , Jean Helwege , Kris Jacobs , Chris Jones , Andrew Karolyi , Dilip Madan , David Mauer , Erwan Morellec , Federico Nardari , N R Prabhala , Tony Sanders , Sergei Sarkissian , Bill Schwert , Ken Singleton , Chester Spatt , René Stulz - Journal of Finance , 2001
"... ABSTRACT Using dealer's quotes and transactions prices on straight industrial bonds, we investigate the determinants of credit spread changes. Variables that should in theory determine credit spread changes have rather limited explanatory power. Further, the residuals from this regression are ..."
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from Lehman Brothers via the Fixed Income (or Warga) Database. We use only quotes on non-callable, non-puttable debt of industrial firms; quotes are discarded whenever a bond has less than four years to maturity. Monthly observations are used for the period July 1988 through December 1997. Only

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by Robert J. Damm, Robert J , 1998
"... December, 1998, 177 pp., 50 tables, references, 105 titles. The purpose of this study was to determine the instructional methods of Oklahoma's elementary school music educators with respect to the inclusion of an authentic repertoire of American Indian music in the curriculum. The research was ..."
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was conducted through two methods. First, an analysis and review of adopted textbook series and pertinent supplemental resources on American Indian music was made. Second, a survey of K-6 grade elementary music specialists in Oklahoma during the 1997-1998 school year was conducted. Results indicated

Racial Differences; Sex Differences IDENTIFIERS *Kentucky; Program Characteristics

by Mary Louise Townley, Kim Wilson, Ann Hines
"... This document is comprised of four reports related to the evaluation of the Kentucky Preschool Program (KPP), serving 4-year-olds who qualify for the free lunch program and 3- and 4-year-olds with disabilities. Report 1 focuses on the differential effects of the preschool program related to race and ..."
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were found across race and gender. Report 2 provides information on program characteristics and child outcomes, based on a study of five classrooms examined in depth during the 1997-1998 school year. Findings indicated that program characteristics associated with positive child outcomes related

Automatic Grading of Programming Exercises

by José Paulo Leal, Nelma Moreira, Leal Nelma Moreira - Kurnia, A.; Cheang, B and Lim, A “Online Judge”, Computers and Education , 1998
"... Introduction During the 1997-1998 school year, answering programming exercises in the computer was introduced in the curricula of several Computer Science undergraduate courses in our department. The courses in question involved such distinct programming languages as the assembly language for the 6 ..."
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Introduction During the 1997-1998 school year, answering programming exercises in the computer was introduced in the curricula of several Computer Science undergraduate courses in our department. The courses in question involved such distinct programming languages as the assembly language
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