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