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Class Size at University
dc.contributor.authorHuxley, Gervas
dc.contributor.authorMayo, Jennifer
dc.contributor.authorPeacey, Mike W.
dc.contributor.authorRichardson, Maddy
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-11T17:59:43Z
dc.date.available2019-08-01T19:53:23Zen
dc.date.issued2018-06
dc.identifier.citationHuxley, Gervas; Mayo, Jennifer; Peacey, Mike W.; Richardson, Maddy (2018). "Class Size at University." Fiscal Studies 39(2): 241-264.
dc.identifier.issn0143-5671
dc.identifier.issn1475-5890
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/144257
dc.description.abstractAn 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.
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Press
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals, Inc.
dc.subject.otherteaching intensity
dc.subject.otherI28
dc.subject.otherclass size
dc.subject.otherI23
dc.subject.otherTeaching Excellence Framework (TEF)
dc.subject.otherstudent choice
dc.titleClass Size at University
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.rights.robotsIndexNoFollow
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelEconomics
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciences
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Reviewed
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dc.description.bitstreamurlhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/144257/2/fisc12149-sup-0001-Appendix.pdf
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/144257/3/fisc12149.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1475-5890.2017.12149
dc.identifier.sourceFiscal Studies
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