coursework and their professors. Despite this, student evaluations of professors are widely used in faculty promotion and tenure … how professor quality affects student achievement. Introductory course professors significantly affect student achievement … mathematics and science professors are negatively correlated with contemporaneous student achievement, but positively related to …

Many wonder whether teacher gender plays an important role in higher education by influencing student achievement and …

education to deteriorate and may affect student interest in a subject. However, little research exists to document these claims …

This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern … University to investigate the relative effects of tenure track/tenured versus non-tenure line faculty on student learning. We … focus on classes taken during a student's first term at Northwestern, and employ a unique identification strategy in which …

the racial/ethnic composition of the student body. We convert these data into an index of diversity and then ask whether … attending a college/university with a more diverse student body influences a variety of outcomes at Wave 4 (2007-08), including …

generate discontinuities in admission and enrollment. The typical marginally admitted student completes an additional year of …

within Italy and the United States. Patience is strongly positively associated with student achievement in both countries …