Andrew S Azman, James H Stark, Benjamin M Althouse, Charles J Vukotich, Samuel Stebbins, Donald S Burke, Derek A T Cummings
Household transmission of influenza A and B in a school-based study of non-pharmaceutical interventions
Epidemics
seeking explain eventual outcomes higher education experience personal attributes background factors students bring college matter college able contribute development student education institutional factors education studies tend simply ignore cognitive aptitudes student characteristicsin particular long history research topicsince focus trying assess impact education thus role student characteristics many ways underappreciated even highly sophisticated quantitative education research conversely educational institutional factors prominent studies focused cognitive aptitudes fields focus first reasoning capacity secondarily factors examine variance student outcomes due student eg cognitive aptitudes versus institutional characteristics eg teachers schools level universities two contemporary us datasets used examine proportion variance accounted various university rankings longrun salary student cognitive characteristics institutional factors find depending upon ways variables entered regression models findings somewhat different suggest fruitful paths forward might integrate methods findings showing teachers schools matter along broader developmental bounds within effects take place