Are contingent instructors better teachers: evidence from a Chinese university

Qiang Feng, Jing Feng, Ming Li and Yang Li

Applied Economics, 2019, vol. 51, issue 58, 6280-6285

Abstract: This paper evaluates the effects of contingent instructors on education outcomes in the context of higher education in developing countries. Exploiting the features of Chinese higher education system, we are able to exclude the confounding effects of student selection and heterogeneous marking standards. Although students of contingent instructors appear to perform as well as their fellow students taught by full-time instructors, we find the evidence that contingent instructors utilize lower marking standards, resulting an inflation of the scores of their students, which masks the negative impacts of their teaching. Our results suggest that contingent instructors have a significantly negative impact on education outcomes. While exposure to contingent instructors may affect the probability of students taking more challenging courses in the following term, the longer-term impacts on education outcomes are negligible.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2019.1667476

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