Evaluating Methods for Evaluating Instruction: The Case of Higher Education / Bruce A. Weinberg, Belton M. Fleisher, Masanori Hashimoto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinberg, Bruce A.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Fleisher, Belton M.

Hashimoto, Masanori.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12844.

NBER working paper series no. w12844

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Evaluating Methods for Evaluating Instruction

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2007.

Summary:

This paper develops an original measure of learning in higher education, based on grades in subsequent courses. Using this measure of learning, this paper shows that student evaluations are positively related to current grades but unrelated to learning once current grades are controlled. It offers evidence that the weak relationship between learning and student evaluations arises, in part, because students are unaware of how much they have learned in a course. The paper concludes with a discussion of easily-implemented, optimal methods for evaluating teaching.

Notes:

Print version record

January 2007.