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Introduction To Research Methodologies, Professor Issam A.W. Mohamed
Introduction To Research Methodologies, Professor Issam A.W. Mohamed
Professor Issam A.W. Mohamed
In this book, I introduce basics of research methodologies in Arabic language which I believe is an unprecedented step. The conceptions, research frameworks, sampling and some detailed methods are given in this text book. Moreover, some analytical statistical methods are introduced to give insights to researchers. Methods of writing the scientific reports and papers in addition to documentation of references and classifying the required logical process of a thesis are detailed in this text. I introduce this book that was published by the Africa International University in Khartoum, Sudan for the purpose of helping sub and post graduate university students …
First In The Class? Age And The Education Production Function, Diane Schanzenbach, Elizabeth Cascio
First In The Class? Age And The Education Production Function, Diane Schanzenbach, Elizabeth Cascio
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Older children outperform younger children in a school-entry cohort well into their school careers. The existing literature has provided little insight into the causes of this phenomenon, leaving open the possibility that school-entry age is zero-sum game, where relatively young students lose what relatively old students gain. In this paper, we estimate the effects of relative age using data from an experiment where children of the same biological age were randomly assigned to different classrooms at the start of school. We find no evidence that relative age impacts achievement in the population at large. However, disadvantaged children assigned to a …
What Have Researchers Learned From Project Star?, Diane Schanzenbach
What Have Researchers Learned From Project Star?, Diane Schanzenbach
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
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