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Identifying Turkish Students' Profiles of Using Information and Communication Technologies and Its Relationship with Their Academic Achievement: A Latent Class Analysis Approach
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Karakoyun, Ferit; Basaran, Bülent – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2022
In this study, 15-year-old Turkish students' profiles of using ICT at home and at school were identified, and the extent to which these profiles were associated with their academic achievement was determined. Moreover, the study investigated the effects of the students' age of first usage of digital device and internet, their gender and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Computer Use, Academic Achievement
Early School Entrance and Middle-Run Academic Performance in Mexico: Evidence for 15-Year-Old Students from the PISA Test
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Aguayo-Téllez, Ernesto; Martínez-Rodríguez, Flor E. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2020
Using an unanticipated policy reform in Mexico that shifted 4 months the cutoff date for elementary school eligibility in 2006 and information on academic performance of 15-year-old students from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 survey, who entered first grade in 2006, this paper estimates the effects of starting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Educational Policy, Academic Achievement
Don't Hold Back? the Effect of Grade Retention on Student Achievement
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Diris, Ron – Education Finance and Policy, 2017
This study analyzes the effect of age-based retention on school achievement at different stages of education. I estimate an instrumental variable model, using the predicted probability of retention given month of birth as an instrument, while simultaneously accounting for the effect of month of birth on maturity at the time of testing. The…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Academic Achievement, Models, Probability