document that students sort across elective courses according to their reporting style. As a result, the average evaluation of … teaching quality. In this paper, we show that heterogeneity in students' reporting styles challenges SET validity. Using … two otherwise identical electives can differ only because of heterogeneity in the reporting style of students attending …

This work contributes to the literature raising concerns with the use of SET (student teaching evaluation) scores to … the (un)happiest students into survey participation since the recent switch to the online format with voluntary … the unidimensionality of the SET answers: various SET items convey uniform content (satisfaction with students' in …

This paper estimates the impact of college teaching on students' academic achievement and labor market outcomes using … of students to teachers in a fixed sequence of compulsory courses. We find that good teaching matters more for the labor … best students are also the ones who boost their earnings the most. On the contrary, for low ability students the academic …

controlling for student absences in teacher evaluation systems' value-added models is a relatively inexpensive way to increase …

of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a … receiving student feedback on student evaluation scores a year later. However, teachers whose self-assessment before the … experiment is much more positive than their students' evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We …

This paper studies the impact of the first Italian Research Evaluation Exercise (VTR 2001-2003) on university … undergraduate students' enrolment choices. A before-after estimator with differential treatment intensities is used to investigate … student enrolments and enrolment of students with better entry qualifications after the VTR. Our analysis demonstrates that …

This paper contrasts measures of teacher effectiveness with the students' evaluations for the same teachers using … in follow-on coursework of students who are randomly assigned to teachers in each of their compulsory courses. We find … material, teachers still matter substantially. The average difference in subsequent performance between students who were …

grading standards on student outcomes are relatively understudied. Using administrative data that links individual students … characteristics and levels of ability, students' relative rank within the classroom, and school context. High teacher grading …