The effectiveness of private tutoring in China with a focus on class-size

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• 作者：Yu Zhang^a ; ^{zhangyu2011@tsinghua.edu.cn" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Junyan Liu^b ; ^{liujy211@hku.hk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Private tutoring ; Class size ; Achievement effect
• 刊名：International Journal of Educational Development
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：January 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：46
• 期：Complete
• 页码：35-42
• 全文大小：767 K

文摘

This paper endeavours to shed light on the effect of private tutoring for Mathematics, Chinese and English in various kinds of class-size on students’ performances in the National College Entrance Exam (NCEE) in China. To achieve this, it draws upon a dataset collected by a specifically designed questionnaire on private tutoring of grade 12 students in Jinan, China. With the consideration of nested alternative structure of choices among private tutoring in different class-size and self-selection problem, the study employed a nested logit model to investigate the factors underlying students’ choice of private tutoring and has fitted OLS model to examine the effects of different class-size tutoring.