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Student evaluations are used for administrative purposes across U.S. colleges and universities. Starting with the hiring a faculty member to promotion and tenure, to annual evaluations and post-tenure evaluations, student evaluations of faculty play a major role, not only at quot;teaching...
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Using a student evaluation of teaching instrument, students were given the opportunity to evaluate instructors at the … formed at the beginning of the course or even prior to the course begins. This suggests that evaluation scores would be …
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Using data that identify the respondents to Student Evaluation of Teaching, the author finds that respondents and … nonrespondents are different, along several characteristics. Students respond more if they are first-term freshmen, or if the course … is a major requirement. Men, students with light course load, and students with low CGPA or low course grade are less …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266896
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259331
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 …
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This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …
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This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023395