Impact of Increasing Class Size

Financial implications of increasing medical school class size.

The Impact of Class Size on Outcomes in Higher Education

Numerous studies have investigated the impact of class size on student outcomes. This analysis contributes to this discussion by isolating the impact of class size on student outcomes in higher education by utilizing a natural experiment at a selective institution which enables the estimation of class size effects conditional on the total number of students taught by a faculty member. We find t...

Increasing Class-Component Testability

Testability has many effects on software. In general, increasing testability makes detecting faults easier. However, increasing testability of third party software components is difficult because the source is usually not available. This paper introduces a method to increase component testability. This method helps a user test when the component is reused during integration. First, we analyze a...

Class size.

Having fewer children in a class is attractive to both parents and teachers. One recent national poll found that 70% of adults believe that reducing class size would result in big improvements in public schools.1 Fewer than 10% believed that it would make no improvement at all. A 1997 Education Week survey found that 83% of teachers and 60% of principals agree that class size in elementary scho...

Financial implications of increasing medical school class size: does tuition cover cost?

INTRODUCTION In 2006, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) issued a recommendation that medical schools increase the supply of physicians by 30% to meet the patient needs of the new millennium. OBJECTIVE To provide financial analysis of the cost of increasing class size. METHODS To determine the financial consequences of increasing medical student enrollment and in the absenc...