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Tiêu đề
A utility model for teaching load decisions in academic departments
Tác giả
Massy W.F.; Zemsky R.
Năm xuất bản
1997
Source title
Economics of Education Review
Số trích dẫn
3
DOI
10.1016/s0272-7757(96)00070-2
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
The authors model the class size and teaching load decisions of academic departments in terms of a departmental utility function. Utility is postulated to be asymmetric around class size and teaching load norms, and variables for curricular structure, disciplinary domain, and institutional type are taken into account. Maximization of the utility function produces decision rules for the number of sections to be offered for each course, and hence the faculty's overall teaching load. A nonlinear estimator is developed for the decision rules' parameters and applied to data from four liberal arts colleges and two research universities. Results are consistent with theories about faculty discretionary time and with expectations about the effects of curricular structure on class size. The paper concludes with a discussion about the effects of enrollment uncertainty on faculty load decisions. [JEL I21] © 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.
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Tài liệu tham khảo
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Elsevier Ltd
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All Open Access; Hybrid Gold Open Access
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