The Impact of Different Types of External Lecturers in Higher Education on Student Learning Outcomes

Jure Erjavec ()
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Jure Erjavec: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics

No 902864, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: Universities often need outside assistance when teaching large classes. This is in the form of teaching assistants coming from the senior or graduate students, and professionals working part time at the university. This study addresses the issue of student outcomes in regard to the type and the number of the lecturers. The study includes 1343 students that attended the same course during three consecutive years. Half of the entire course was taught by different lecturers: undergraduate teaching assistants, graduate teaching assistants, professional experts and internal faculty staff. The student outcomes are measured by different criteria. The results of the research show that there is a statistically significant difference between student outcomes in regard to the number and type of lecturers.

Keywords: lecturer type; number of lecturers; higher education; cost optimization; independent-samples t-test; one-way ANOVA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 6 pages
Date: 2014-12
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 14th International Academic Conference, Malta, Dec 2014, pages 116-121

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