Returns to Teaching Repetition - The Effect of Short-Term Teaching Experience on Student Outcomes

Harold E. Cuffe (), Jan Feld and O’Grady, Trevor ()
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Harold E. Cuffe: Victoria University of Wellington
O’Grady, Trevor: The College of New Jersey

No 12676, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Teachers often deliver the same lesson multiple times in one day. In contrast to year-to-year teaching experience, it is unclear how this teaching repetition affects student outcomes. We examine the effects of teaching repetition in a setting where students are randomly assigned to a university instructor's first, second, third or fourth lesson on the same day. We find no meaningful effects of repetition on grades, course dropout, or study effort and only suggestive evidence of positive effects on teaching evaluations. These results suggest that teaching repetition is a powerful tool to reduce teachers' preparation time without negative effects on students.

Keywords: teacher experience; teaching repetition; higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2019-10
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Published - published in: Education, Finance and Policy, 2021, 16 (3), 516-532

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