Disaggregating Education Production (Original PAPER‪)‬

Introduction A particular weakness of the education production function literature is that production is measured after a series of treatments and reflects aggregation across treatments. The literature has generally utilized data based on student performance over an entire course. Studies of this nature involve aggregation across the stages of production. In a large lecture course, the stages of production are traditionally the reading assignment, lecture, follow up study and test preparation. The benefit of disaggregation across these treatments is the ability to identify which treatments are effective and which are not. This study meets a need to extend the perspective of this literature to a disaggregated view.