This paper analyzes data from Project STAR, an experiment in which 11,600 Tennessee kindergarten students and teachers were randomly assigned to one of three types of classes beginning in the 1985-86 school year: small classes (13-17 students), regular-size classes (22-25 students) teacher's...

This paper contributes to the literature on the effectiveness of schools. The analysis is unique in five respects. First, the data employed include the minutes of instruction per five day week in each of four subjects for all the public schools in Illinois. Few education production function...

This paper analyzes data from Project STAR, an experiment in which 11,600 Tennessee kindergarten students and teachers were randomly assigned to one of three types of classes beginning in the 1985-86 school year: small classes (13-17 students), regular-size classes (22-25 students) teacher's...

Schulen tragen nicht zu den im Moment steigenden Corona-Fallzahlen bei. Das Wiederöffnen der Schulen nach den deutschen Sommerferien trug vermutlich sogar dazu bei, dass die Inzidenzzahlen niedriger geblieben sind, als sie bei geschlossenen Schulen gewesen wären. Die obligatorischen...

Without doubt modern education in statistics must involve practical, computer-based data analysis but the question arises whether and how computational elements should be integrated into the canon of methodological education. Should the student see and study high-level programming code right at...

Recent studies conclude that teachers are important for student learning but it remains uncertain what actually determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the relationship between lecture style teaching and student...