Are professors really worth it?

Tutorial teaching quality unrelated to academic rank

Interview | door Sicco de Knecht
13 september 2019 | Student instructors and full professors are equally good when it comes to teaching tutorials, a study by three economists finds. "The idea that students are as good as professors at teaching tutorials is not crazy. I think the crazy thing is that people are still using professors to do this work", says researcher Jan Feld (Victoria University of Wellington).
It might be the single most worrisome statistic in academia: the plummeting staff-to-student ratio.
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Literatuurverwijzingen

Are professors worth it? The value-added and costs of tutorial instructors

Jan Feld, Nicolás Salamanca & Ulf Zölitz (2018) - Discussion paper series (link).

Students are almost as effective as professors in university teaching

Jan Feld, Nicolás Salamanca & Ulf Zölitz (2019) - Discussion paper series (link).


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