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Coronado, Semei; Sandoval-Bravo, Salvador; Celso-Arellano, Pedro Luis; Torres-Mata, Ana – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2018
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the test applied at the eighth Statistics II tournament to students from the University Center for Economic and Administrative Sciences of the University of Guadalajara, for the purpose of determining whether it promotes competitive learning among students. To achieve this, Item Response Theory (IRT) is…
Descriptors: Models, Competition, Item Response Theory, Student Motivation
Avitabile, Ciro; de Hoyos, Rafael – World Bank, 2015
A randomized control trial was conducted to study whether providing 10th grade students with information about the returns to upper secondary and tertiary education, and a source of financial aid for tertiary education, can contribute to improve student performance. The study finds that the intervention had no effects on the probability of taking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 10, Randomized Controlled Trials