paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …

the (un)happiest students into survey participation since the recent switch to the online format with voluntary … the unidimensionality of the SET answers: various SET items convey uniform content (satisfaction with students' in … gender and penalty to teaching very weak students are particularly strong. Use of recent and large American data** raises the …

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 …

We study whether female students benefit from being taught by female professors, and whether such gender match effects … larger classes. This difference suggests that direct and frequent interactions between students and professors are important … increase performance of female students. …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

Millions of high school students who take an Advanced Placement (AP) course in one of over 30 subjects can earn college … that 15 percent of students' AP courses do not result in an AP exam. We predict that up to 32 percent of the AP courses … district exam subsidies on AP exam-taking rates. In fact, students on free and reduced-price lunch (FRL) in the districts that …

administrative data for the universe of students in a Master's program in Management and Finance in Italy over 2011-2015. We measure …'s achievement, both in the short and in the long run. However, further estimates reveal interesting heterogeneities across students …, being active teaching more effective in the case of females and students from secondary schools with an academic track. …