Is traditional teaching really all that bad? A within-student between-subject approach

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 365-379

  Schwerdt, Guido ^a   Wuppermann, Amelie C ^b  

^a IFO INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Between subject variation; Educational production; Teaching practices; TIMSS

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; LEARNING; STUDENT; TEACHING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952190951     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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