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Baker, Rachel; Dee, Thomas; Evans, Brent; John, June – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2018
While online learning environments are increasingly common, relatively little is known about issues of equity in these settings. We test for the presence of race and gender biases among postsecondary students and instructors in online classes by measuring student and instructor responses to discussion comments we posted in the discussion forums of…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Gender Bias, Online Courses, Equal Education
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
Evans, Brent J.; Baker, Rachel B.; Dee, Thomas – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2015
Using a unique dataset of 44 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), this paper examines critical patterns of enrollment, engagement, persistence, and completion among students in online higher education. By leveraging fixed-effects specifications based on over 2.1 million student observations across more than 2,900 lectures, we analyze engagement,…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education