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Download full textFajnzylber, Eduardo; Lara, Bernardo; León, Tomás V. – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2018
A student's ranking in the grade point average (GPA) distribution has emerged as an admission variable that increases admission rates of both segregated minorities and high-performance individuals. In 2012, Chile's centralized university admission system introduced a GPA ranking variable relative to the previous cohorts' average GPA. Such a system…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade Point Average, Grade Inflation, College Students
Bettinger, Eric; Liu, Jing; Loeb, Susanna – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2016
Peers affect individual's productivity in the workforce, in education, and in other team-based tasks. Using large-scale language data from an online college course, we measure the impacts of peer interactions on student learning outcomes and persistence. In our setting, students are quasi-randomly assigned to peers, and as such, we are able to…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Interaction, College Students, Online Courses
