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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Are professors worth it? The value-added and costs of tutorial instructors
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Authors
  • Jan Feld
  • Nicolas Salamanca
  • Ulf Zölitz
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name Working paper series / Department of Economics
Number 293
ISSN 1664-7041
Number of Pages 45
Date 2018
Abstract Text 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.
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Keywords Teacher value-added, teaching effectiveness, higher education, Tutor, Hochschulbildung, Wertschöpfung, Unterricht, Effizienz, Bildungsabschluss
Additional Information Auch publiziert als IZA DP No. 11975