Guido Schwerdt|Amelie Wuppermann
Is traditional teaching really all that bad? A within-student between-subject approach
Ifo Institute for Economic Research|Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
recent studies conclude teachers important student learning remains uncertain actually determines effective teaching study directly peers black box educational production investigating relationship lecture style teaching student achievement based matched studentteacher data us estimation strategy exploits betweensubject variation control unobserved student traits results indicate traditional lecture style teaching associated significantly higher student achievement support detrimental effects lecture style teaching found even evaluating possible selection biases due unobservable teacher characteristics