This paper reports the results of a large randomized field experiment that investigates the extent to which nudges can … students’ perceived impact of teaching evaluations, (2) communicate a descriptive norm of high participation, and (3) use the … commitment-consistency principle by asking students to commit to participation. We find that none of the nudges were effective …

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 …

Student evaluations of teaching represent an economic behavior between professors and students and have been viewed as … simultaneous framework is developed to investigate the relationship between students' midterm grades and teaching effectiveness …