Fun with Class Size Data
Yesterday, I promised to show you some of the data on our alternative measure of class size (see here for more details). Some preliminaries, though: Our measure of “average number of classmates” may be a bit crude (it depends on student estimates of class sizes), but it is robust. Institutional averages bounce around by a few percent each year, but long-term averages – which at most institutions involve between two and four thousand observations – are pretty stable. To avoid
January 6, 2012
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