Recent years have seen a growing interest in the role that student drawing can play in learning. Because drawing has been shown to contribute to students’ learning and increase their engagement, developing student models to dynamically support drawing holds significant promise. To this end, we introduce diagrammatic student models, which reason about students’ drawing trajectories to generate a...

We match data on performance in a multiple-choice examination with risk preferences from classroom experiment. Students who are more loss averse leave questions unanswered and perform worse the exam when an incorrect answer is penalized compared no answer. Thus, aversion parameters extracted lottery choices controlled experiment have predictive power field environment of decision-making under u...

The Role of Student and School Variables in Reading Performance among Those Participated in PIRLS 2006 M. S. Reza'ee A.R. Kiamanesh, Ph.D. Z. Naghsh, Ph.D. To determine the role of student and school variables in reading performance, the data on Iranian fourth graders who participated in PIRLS 2006 were analyzed. The sample had included 3978 students from 208 schools. At the stu...

East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family background is a strong predictor of student performance in South Korea and Singapore, while Hong Kon...