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Kondratjeva, Olga; Gorbunova, Elena V.; Hawley, Joshua D. – Comparative Education Review, 2017
Student attrition in postsecondary education is a significant public policy problem. Nations invest substantial resources in college systems, and when students leave, this investment is lost. To understand the factors that influence student attrition in US and Russian public universities, we use the perspective of academic momentum, defined…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Gender Differences, Dropouts, School Holding Power
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Oleksiyenko, Anatoly – Comparative Education Review, 2014
Chinese and Russian universities are increasingly drawn into center-periphery repositioning, as they compete for symbolic, financial, and intellectual resources locally and globally. However, their strategies on national and institutional linkages differ with regards to the individual scientist's powers in knowledge production. As global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientists, Benchmarking, Productivity
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Blomeke, Sigrid – Comparative Education Review, 2012
A teacher education program offers opportunities to learn (OTL) consistent with its vision of what teachers need to know and be able to do. The "Teacher Education and Development Study: Learning to Teach Mathematics" of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement provides, for the first time, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Comparative Analysis
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Heyneman, Stephen P.; Anderson, Kathryn H.; Nuraliyeva, Nazym – Comparative Education Review, 2008
Corruption was symptomatic of business and government interactions in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union before and during the economic transition of the 1990s. Corruption is difficult to quantify, but the perception of corruption is quantifiable. Nations can even be arranged along a hierarchy by the degree to which they are…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Foreign Countries, Public Sector, Higher Education