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Educational intentions, cognitive skills and earnings expectations of French undergraduates
2014
International audience; This article aims to study the earnings expectations of first-year students at a French university. Our findings highlight the importance of the environment in which students make their choices about education. Expected earnings are proportionally higher when their parents seem to be involved in the careers guidance, taking into account the effect of parental socio-economic status. The positive opinion of parents about the orientation or the connection between the discipline and the father's occupation are generally associated with higher earnings. In addition, our results show a strong impact of cognitive variables which are far more significant than variables relat…
Les déterminants de la réussite à l’université. Quels apports de la recherche en Éducation ? Quelles perspectives de recherche ?
2016
In France, the university is experiencing the problem of failure, especially in the first cycle. This article aims to establish, in a chronological perspective, a literature review of the contributions of educational research in the French context, the various factors contributing to this failure. The aim is firstly to show how evolved the research on the determinants of academic success since the 1990s. It is, secondly, to examine what types of research can still be conducted on the subject. That will lead us in particular that, despite questioning from several decades of university teaching, few studies have so far been conducted in the French context regarding the impact of teaching prac…
School aspirations, cognitive skills and wage expectations of French Undergraduates
2013
en ligne : http://cemapre.iseg.utl.pt/educonf/2e3/files/submissions_to_web/Bonnard%20Claire_%20Giret%20Jean-Francois_Lambert-Le%20Mener%20Marielle.pdf; This paper aims to study the earnings expectations of first-year students at a French university and to compare them with the observed earnings of young people in the labour market for that same year. Our findings highlight the importance of the environment in which students make their choices about education. Expected earnings are proportionally higher when their parents seem to be involved in the careers guidance, even controlling for the effect of parental socio-economic status. The positive opinion of parents about the orientation or the…