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Wolbring, Tobias – Evaluation Review, 2012
Background: Many university departments use students' evaluations of teaching (SET) to compare and rank courses. However, absenteeism from class is often nonrandom and, therefore, SET for different courses might not be comparable. Objective: The present study aims to answer two questions. Are SET positively biased due to absenteeism? Do…
Descriptors: Research Design, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Attendance
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Powell, Justin J. W.; Solga, Heike – Journal of Education and Work, 2011
Countries around the world have witnessed educational expansion at all levels, leading to the massification of tertiary education and training. Tertiary education has become a major factor of economic competitiveness in an increasingly science-based global economy and a key response to shifts in national labour markets. Within the EU, the reform…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
The formulation of effective compulsory attendance laws has been one of the problems confronting legislators and school officials for the past 70 years. The most marked advance in enacting such laws has been made since 1890. Prior to that date only 27 States and the District of Columbia had compulsory laws, and many of these were inoperative. Now…
Descriptors: Attendance, Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, Educational Legislation