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

• Published in: Economics of education review Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 365 - 379
• Main Authors: Schwerdt, Guido, Wuppermann, Amelie C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier India Pvt Ltd 01.04.2011; Elsevier Science; Elsevier
• Series: Economics of Education Review
• Subjects: Academic Achievement; Between-subject variation; Bildungsniveau; Conventional Instruction; Correlation; Educational production; Lecture Method; Lehrkräfte; Peer Influence; Schüler; Student Characteristics; Teacher Characteristics; Teacher Effectiveness; Teaching Methods; Teaching practices; Teaching practices Educational production TIMSS Between-subject variation; Teaching Styles; TIMSS; Unterricht; USA; I21; Teaching practices; TIMSS; Between-subject variation; C23; Educational production

▶ We study effects of lecture style teaching relative to in-class problem solving using information on in-class time use provided by teachers in TIMSS 2003 in US schools. ▶ A 10 p.p. shift from problem solving to lecture style teaching increases student achievement by about 1% of a standard deviatio...