TY - JOUR
AU - Snellings, Eleanor C.
AB - ANTHOLOGY ELEANOR C. SNELLINGS Virginia Commonwealth University the learning which occurs in their class- That use of common property in the rooms. Overutilization reduces learning (and absence of rules may lead to inefficiency is the teacher's reputation) and at the same widely recognized in its applications to time it imposes greater burdens on the ecology [Gordon, JPE, April 1954] but less teacher--more papers to grade and more familiar in applications elsewhere, as in use of educational resources. students to see during office hours. When student characteristics relevant to Assume two teachers of differing abilities so that any given number of students placed learning, other than effort, vary, the margi- with teacher A would learn more than under nal product associated with an incremental teacher B. If the administration's objective student will reflect not only the intensity of were to maximize student learning, it would usage of that classroom but the changed mix allocate students to each classroom so that of characteristics within it. In such situa- the marginal product in one classroom tions, response to a superior teacher is equaled that in the other. This does not overuse, until the average learning of happen, perhaps because maximization of students 
TI - Classrooms as commons
JF - Atlantic Economic Journal
DO - 10.1007/bf02316890
DA - 1987-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/classrooms-as-commons-9DEZeBuMCz
SP - 76
EP - 76
VL - 15
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -