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Press releaseVerbal or numerical? How report cards change parents' views of their children's school skills

A new study by BiB shows that most parents overestimate their children's school skills. Written assessments in report cards have little effect on this, whereas grades have a stronger impact on parents.

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Journal ArticlesEurope’s COVID-19 death toll in 2020 and 2021: stark regional differences

Bonnet, Florian; Grigoriev, Pavel; Sauerberg, Markus; Alliger, Ina; Mühlichen, Michael; Camarda, Carlo-Giovanni (2024)

N-IUSSP September 2, 2024: 1–5

Europe was hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. While its effects at national level are now well known, intranational differences have been less frequently investigated. The Authors fill this knowledge gap and show that considerable heterogeneity exists at regional level, even within the same country.