Symposium: The Educational Realities of Increasing Class Size

Class size, teacher hours and educational attainment

We employ a regression-discontinuity design to identify effects on educational attainment (years of education) of class size and the number of pupils per weekly teacher hour using administrative rules as instruments. We use a Danish administrative panel data set based on a 10% random sample of eight cohorts of pupils (and their parents). Restricting the sample to observations close to enrolment...

Financial implications of increasing medical school class size.

Global Educational Technology Symposium

At the dawn of approaching information society, there is an ever-growing research interest on the field of elearning which drive attention of researchers from diverse area of disciplines, such as computer science, signal processing, psychology, education, etc. This is a reflection of a concrete consensus that Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is going to have a great impact on education in the f...

Class size and educational achievement : a methodological review

The paper reviews research into class size effects from a methodological viewpoint, especially concentrating on the various strengths and weaknesses of randomised controlled trials and observational studies. It sets out the criteria for valid inferences from such studies and illustrates these using a reanalysis of the large data set from the Tennessee STAR study.

the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality

this thesis is about the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality.