Widening higher education participation has resulted in efforts directed towards increasing
higher education access. However, inequality in higher education completion continues to …

Inattention and imperfect information bias behavior toward the salient and immediately
visible. This distortion creates costs for individuals, the organizations in which they work, and …

In learning communities, students share their knowledge which might contribute to academic
performance. This study disentangles peer selection from influence processes in modelling …

Meta-analysis is a statistical method that combines quantitative findings from previous
studies. It has been increasingly used to obtain more credible results in a wide range of …

Why are some people more successful than others? In addition to individual factors (eg self-
control), research has recently suggested that the quality of people's interpersonal …

A comprehensive, up-to-date look at modern Russian higher education. By the mid-
eighteenth century, when the first university appeared in Russia, many European nations …

Peer effects are an important contributing factor in the learning process. Most of the prior
literature on peer effects focuses on the characteristics of peers rather than examining the …

The importance of close social contacts in the educational process has been widely
documented, but mainly for the school sector. The present article examines the importance …

In order to understand and represent the importance of nodes within networks better, most of
the studies that investigate graphs compute the nodes' centrality within their network (s) of …

Most research related to learning in groups focuses on the unit of the group and/or group
members. However, students may benefit from crossing the boundaries of their own group …