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Bettinger, Eric; Liu, Jing; Loeb, Susanna – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2016
Peers affect individual's productivity in the workforce, in education, and in other team-based tasks. Using large-scale language data from an online college course, we measure the impacts of peer interactions on student learning outcomes and persistence. In our setting, students are quasi-randomly assigned to peers, and as such, we are able to…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Interaction, College Students, Online Courses
Bettinger, Eric; Doss, Christopher; Loeb, Susanna; Taylor, Eric – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2015
Class size is a first-order consideration in the study of education production and education costs. How larger or smaller classes affect student outcomes is especially relevant to the growth and design of online classes. We study a field experiment in which college students were quasi-randomly assigned to either a large or a small class. All…
Descriptors: Class Size, College Students, Small Classes, Online Courses