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Does shadow education help students prepare for college? Evidence from Russia
Prashant Loyalka,Andrey Zakharov +1 more
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In this paper, the authors examined the impact of shadow education on high school student achievement and found that shadow education only positively impacts the achievement of high-achieving students and did not lead students to substitute time away from their studies.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Educational Development.The article was published on 2016-07-01. It has received 39 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Shadow (psychology).read more
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National Differences, Global Similarities: World Culture and the Future of Schooling:
TL;DR: The work had some moving, revelatory moments with usefully juxtaposed ideas about the ethics and conduct of qualitative method, but at times it strayed dangerously close to narcissism by too often heeding the impulse to tell everything.
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Shadow education: private supplementary tutoring and its implications for policy makers in Asia
TL;DR: The concept of shadow education may be unfamiliar, but should hold no terrors as mentioned in this paper, which is a review of a book about private tuition, co-published by the Asian Development Bank and the...
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Regulating private tutoring for public good: Policy options for supplementary education in Asia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a list of supplementary tutoring in 32 countries in Asia which indicates the scale and spread of this type of education in this region and suggest various policy options for governments and suggestions for implementation.
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Assessing the instructional quality of private tutoring and its effects on student outcomes: Analyses from the German National Educational Panel Study
TL;DR: Private tutoring cannot be recommended as a generally effective strategy to improve academic achievement in school, but might be helpful to relieve the stress level induced by insufficient Achievement in school.
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Exploring Year 6 pupils’ perceptions of private tutoring: evidence from three mainstream schools in England
TL;DR: While quantitative research on the nature and extent of private tutoring in England is increasingly available, very limited evidence exists regarding pupils' voices in evaluating their participatio-... as discussed by the authors.
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Information, School Choice, and Academic Achievement: Evidence from Two Experiments
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze two experiments that provided direct information on school test scores to lower-income families in a public school choice plan and find that receiving information significantly increases the fraction of parents choosing higher-performing schools.
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The Shadow Education System: Private Tutoring and Its Implications for Planners
TL;DR: Bray as discussed by the authors describes and analyzes the phenomenon of private educational tutoring and places the subject in a global context, and provides a historical and sociological context for the phenomenon and ends by providing some suggestions for policy makers.
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Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School: A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between teacher credentials and student achievement at the high school level and found that uneven distribution of teacher credentials by race and socio-economic status of high school students contributes to achievement gaps in high school.
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Full matching in an observational study of coaching for the SAT
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the performance of full matching for the first time, modifying it in order to minimize variance as well as bias and then using it to compare coached and uncoached takers of the SAT.
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