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Class Size at University

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  • Gervas Huxley
  • Jennifer Mayo
  • Mike W. Peacey
  • Maddy Richardson

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An effective higher education market should increase educational standards. For universities to fulfil this role, students need reliable information about the teaching on offer at different universities, but no such data are currently available. We define a measure of teaching that weights contact hours by their intensity and collect a new data set that allows comparison of teaching across universities and across three departments. No two universities offer identical teaching. There is large variation in contact hours and even larger variation in teaching intensity, across both universities and departments. We combine our data with existing data to investigate the relationship that teaching has with university and student characteristics. We find that how much teaching students receive is uncorrelated with tuition fee; that teaching has little predictive power in explaining student satisfaction; and that physics students consistently receive more teaching than either economics or history students.

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  • Gervas Huxley & Jennifer Mayo & Mike W. Peacey & Maddy Richardson, 2018. "Class Size at University," Fiscal Studies, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 39(2), pages 241-264, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:fistud:v:39:y:2018:i:2:p:241-264
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5890.2017.12149
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    1. Kara, Elif & Tonin, Mirco & Vlassopoulos, Michael, 2021. "Class size effects in higher education: Differences across STEM and non-STEM fields," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    2. Alessio Gaggero & Getinet Haile, 2020. "Does class size matter in postgraduate education?," Manchester School, University of Manchester, vol. 88(3), pages 489-505, June.
    3. Jia Zhu & Hang Yuan & Quan Zhang & Po-Hsun Huang & Yongjie Wang & Sixuan Duan & Ming Lei & Eng Gee Lim & Pengfei Song, 2022. "The impact of short videos on student performance in an online-flipped college engineering course," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 9(1), pages 1-10, December.

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