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Evaluating Students' Evaluations of Professors

Michela Braga, +2 more
- 01 Aug 2014 - 
- Vol. 41, pp 71-88
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In this article, the authors compare measures of teacher effectiveness with the students' evaluations for the same teachers using administrative data from Bocconi University and find that teacher quality matters substantially and that their measure of effectiveness is negatively correlated with the student's evaluations of professors.
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This article is published in Economics of Education Review.The article was published on 2014-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 323 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Coursework.

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Generalizations about Using Value-Added Measures of Teacher Quality

Eric A. Hanushek, +1 more
- 01 May 2010 - 
TL;DR: This article found that there is sub-stantial variation in teacher quality as measured by the value added to achievement or future aca- demic attainment or earnings, and that variables often used to determine entry into the profession and salaries, including post-graduate schooling, experience, and licensing examination scores, appear to explain little of the variation of teacher quality so measured, with the exception of early experience.
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Working with Machines: The Impact of Algorithmic and Data-Driven Management on Human Workers

Min Kyung Lee, +3 more
TL;DR: This findings from a qualitative study describe how drivers responded when algorithms assigned work, provided informational support, and evaluated their performance, and how drivers used online forums to socially make sense of the algorithm features.
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Student Evaluations of Teaching (Mostly) Do Not Measure Teaching Effectiveness

Anne Boring, +2 more
- 07 Jan 2016 - 
TL;DR: This paper showed that student evaluations of teaching (SET) are biased against female instructors by an amount that is large and statistically significant the bias affects how students rate even putatively objective aspects of teaching, such as how promptly assignments are graded.
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Gender biases in student evaluations of teaching

Anne Boring
- 01 Jan 2017 - 
TL;DR: This article used data from a French university to analyze gender biases in student evaluations of teaching (SETs) and found that male students express a bias in favor of male professors, despite the fact that students appear to learn as much from women as from men.
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Reconceptualizing the Sources of Teaching Self-Efficacy: a Critical Review of Emerging Literature

David B. Morris, +2 more
- 01 Dec 2017 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the ways in which researchers have measured and conceptualized the sources of teaching self-efficacy across 82 empirical studies and identify what can be inferred from these studies and what important questions still remain about the origins of teachers' efficacy beliefs.
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Frequently Asked Questions (3)
Q1. What is the validity of anonymous students’ evaluations as indicators of teacher ability?

1The validity of anonymous students’ evaluations as indicators of teacher ability rests on the assumption that students are in a better position to observe the performance of their teachers. 

Since the students’ evaluations are also available at the class level and not for specific teachers, the authors cannot disaggregate further. 

At that point, the estimated effect of teacher effectiveness on students’ evaluations is about a quarter of the one estimated on the entire sample.