Heterogeneous Students, Impartial Teaching and Optimal Allocation of Teaching Methods

Selim, Sheikh Tareq and Lamagna, Carmen 2005. Heterogeneous Students, Impartial Teaching and Optimal Allocation of Teaching Methods. The AIUB Journal of Business & Economics 4 (1) , pp. 1-20.

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Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of identifying optimal mix of teaching methods for an instructor when students are of heterogeneous types. The exact student type cannot be identified ex ante which forces the instructor to act impartially and allocate teaching methods according to some pre-designed plan. In a simple model of instructor-student interaction, we show that if the instructor acts benevolent and impartially towards preparing the initial teaching method plan, there exists a unique optimal mix of teaching methods. We calibrate the impartial teaching model with data on the teaching of Business and Economics related undergraduate and postgraduate units, and find that the characterized optimal teaching method mix differs significantly across different units.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education
Publisher:	American International University - Bangladesh
ISSN:	1683-8742
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2016 23:08
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/40023

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