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Non-cognitive peer effects in secondary education
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In this article, a linear-in-means model and alternative models of peer effects with additional peer effects terms accounting for the Big Five personality traits were proposed to examine how the non-cognitive traits of peers in the classroom impact an individual's learning outcomes.About:
This article is published in Labour Economics.The article was published on 2021-12-01. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Academic achievement & Conscientiousness.read more
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The Impact of Peer Personality on Academic Achievement
TL;DR: In this article, the authors exploit random assignment of students to university sections and find that students perform better in the presence of persistent peers and that the impact of peer persistence is enduring, as students exposed to persistent peers at the beginning of their studies continue to achieve higher grades in subsequent periods.
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A dynamic model of effort choice in high school
TL;DR: A dynamic model of educational decisions finds that encouraging underperforming students to switch to less academic programs reduces grade retention and dropout, and the decrease in the number of college graduates is small.
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School Composition and Educational Impacts: Four Papers on Socioeconomic Segregation and Peer Effects
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on assessing the evolution of schools' socioeconomic segregation during recent decades and estimating the short and long-term effects of classmates' characteristics on student academic outcomes.
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Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success
TL;DR: This paper found that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking over and above cognitive skills.
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Overconfident Boys: The Gender Gap in Mathematics Self-Assessment
TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that having a confident male co-twin increases the confidence of boys in mathematics but decreases their confidence in other abilities, not just in mathematics, but also in their self-assessment of other abilities.
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Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of tests.
TL;DR: In this paper, a general formula (α) of which a special case is the Kuder-Richardson coefficient of equivalence is shown to be the mean of all split-half coefficients resulting from different splittings of a test, therefore an estimate of the correlation between two random samples of items from a universe of items like those in the test.
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Multiple imputation for nonresponse in surveys
TL;DR: In this article, a survey of drinking behavior among men of retirement age was conducted and the results showed that the majority of the participants reported that they did not receive any benefits from the Social Security Administration.
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Inference and missing data
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that ignoring the process that causes missing data when making sampling distribution inferences about the parameter of the data, θ, is generally appropriate if and only if the missing data are missing at random and the observed data are observed at random, and then such inferences are generally conditional on the observed pattern of missing data.
Multiple Imputation For Nonresponse In Surveys
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Multiple Imputation for Nonresponse in Surveys.
C. D. Kershaw,Donald B. Rubin +1 more
TL;DR: This work focuses on the development of Imputation Models for Social Security Benefit Reconciliation in the context of a Finite Population and examines the role of Bayesian and Randomization--Based Inferences in these models.