The effectiveness of private tutoring in China with a focus on class-size

Yu Zhang and Junyan Liu

International Journal of Educational Development, 2016, vol. 46, issue C, 35-42

Abstract: This paper endeavours to shed light on the effect of private tutoring for Mathematics, Chinese and English in various kinds of class-size on students’ performances in the National College Entrance Exam (NCEE) in China. To achieve this, it draws upon a dataset collected by a specifically designed questionnaire on private tutoring of grade 12 students in Jinan, China. With the consideration of nested alternative structure of choices among private tutoring in different class-size and self-selection problem, the study employed a nested logit model to investigate the factors underlying students’ choice of private tutoring and has fitted OLS model to examine the effects of different class-size tutoring.

Keywords: Private tutoring; Class size; Achievement effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2015.11.006

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