Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207317 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12491
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In a previous paper, we have shown that academic rank is largely unrelated to tutorial teaching effectiveness. In this paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost as effective as senior instructors, and we produce results informative on the effects of expanding the use of student instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will likely negatively affect student outcomes. Given how inexpensive student instructors are, however, such a policy might still be worth it.
Subjects: 
student instructors
university
teacher performance
JEL: 
I21
I24
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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