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School, department, and instructor determinants of teaching methods in undergraduate economics courses
Author(s) -
Harter Cynthia,
Schaur Georg,
Watts Michael
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
southern economic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.762
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 2325-8012
pISSN - 0038-4038
DOI - 10.4284/0038-4038-2013.266
Subject(s) - coursework , affect (linguistics) , quality (philosophy) , mathematics education , medical education , resource (disambiguation) , psychology , medicine , computer science , computer network , philosophy , communication , epistemology
The choice of teaching methods and materials is affected by key school, departmental, and faculty characteristics. We investigate the effects of such characteristics and estimate how much changes in some school and departmental policies affect the probability that economics instructors will use particular teaching methods and materials in four different types of courses. As schools and departments change policies, often in response to changes in resource bases, they may not take into account how that affects faculty teaching and student time investments in coursework. That raises concerns about the relationship between these constraints, policies, and possible decreases in the quality of college graduates.