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Are Professors Worth it? The Value-Added and Costs of Tutorial Instructors
- Source :
- SSRN Electronic Journal.
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions - small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank teach tutorials more effectively in a setting where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building on these results, we discuss different staffing scenarios that show that universities can substantially reduce costs by increasingly relying on lower-ranked instructors for tutorial teaching.
- Subjects :
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Economics and Econometrics
Higher education
Strategy and Management
I24
Staffing
J24
teaching effectiveness
ECON Department of Economics
university
10007 Department of Economics
Management of Technology and Innovation
0502 economics and business
Bildungsabschluss
Mathematics education
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
ddc:330
Effizienz
050207 economics
Hochschulbildung
050205 econometrics
student instructors
added
business.industry
Teacher value-added
05 social sciences
Rank (computer programming)
Tutor
Oecd countries
330 Economics
instructor rank
higher education
Wertschöpfung
Teacher value
Unterricht
I21
business
Psychology
Value (mathematics)
10190 Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15565068
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- SSRN Electronic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1fba6a8083d19ec5fb77c72c7dcc7fa4