Judging Instructional Quality

South Carolina considers five measures of instructional quality in allocating funds to colleges based on performance:

Class size and student-teacher ratios. Results are based on the average enrollment in each lecture class, and the ratio of full-time students to full-time faculty members. Research universities are expected to enroll 30 to 33 students in lower-division classes; for technical colleges, the goal is 16 to

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