Class size in medical school

Financial implications of increasing medical school class size.

Class Size and School Progress

It is generally accepted that there are limits to the efficient educative contact between pupil and teacher. The number of pupils per teacher as set by the educational theorist varies from one to thirty or forty. In practice, classes of from fifteen to thirty are the rule in private schools where expense is not an all-important determining element. In public school systems where the budget must...

Financial implications of increasing medical school class size: does tuition cover cost?

INTRODUCTION In 2006, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) issued a recommendation that medical schools increase the supply of physicians by 30% to meet the patient needs of the new millennium. OBJECTIVE To provide financial analysis of the cost of increasing class size. METHODS To determine the financial consequences of increasing medical student enrollment and in the absenc...

Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World

We estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries, combining school fixed effects and instrumental variables to identify random class-size variation between two adjacent grades within individual schools. Conventional estimates of class-size effects are shown to be severely biased by the non-random placement of students between and within schools. Smaller classes exhibi...

Do Class and School Size Matter? A Crucial Issue to School Improvement

Students in a first year Master’s degree seminar were asked to find the answer to the question “Do Class and School Size Matter as A Crucial Issue to School Improvement?” The paper the students wrote is based on a review of the literature. The students determined that the question had several issues to be addressed before they could answer the question. The issues researched were Student to Tea...