Student engagement and larger class enrollments: evidence from a growing mid-sized university

Michael Gove ()
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Michael Gove: University of North Georgia

Economics Bulletin, 2019, vol. 39, issue 4, 2550-2565

Abstract: With increasing enrollment and class sizes in many colleges and universities, the potential connection between class size and student engagement has growing relevance for students, faculty, and administrators alike. I examine this potential connection, focusing empirically on a sample that allows for capturing how class size is related to various engagement measures on student evaluations of instructors over a nine-semester period in a College of Business at a growing mid-sized university. Across multiple specifications varying in both functional form and inclusion of fixed effects controlling for differences in instructors and courses, I find a consistently significant negative relationship between the class size and instructor evaluation ratings. This negative relationship is largest when increasing class size at lower enrollment levels, the negativ

Keywords: engagement; class size; higher education; student evaluations; college quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-11-12
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