Good Teaching and Good Grades. Can you Buy ...
Document type :
Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage
Title :
Good Teaching and Good Grades. Can you Buy Pedagogy?
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Journal title :
Annals of Economics and Statistics
Pages :
29-60
Publisher :
CNGP-INSEE
Publication date :
2020-09
ISSN :
2115-4430
English keyword(s) :
Student Evaluation of Teaching
Post-Secondary Education
Grades
Post-Secondary Education
Grades
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances
English abstract : [en]
This paper analyzes the relationship between students grades and their evaluations of teaching. We exploit an original data set from almost 100 courses during 7 academic years in a French higher education institution. We ...
Show more >This paper analyzes the relationship between students grades and their evaluations of teaching. We exploit an original data set from almost 100 courses during 7 academic years in a French higher education institution. We use teacher fixed effects to rule out any simultaneity or endogeneity bias. We find that students take their exam grade into account when they evaluate teaching. A better grade is associated with a better evaluation of a teacher's pedagogy, although the size of the effect is relatively small. A one-point increase in by-course mean grade corresponds to a less than one percentage point decrease in the proportion of students giving bad evaluations. These results suggest that it is possible to manipulate evaluations through grade or exam leniency.Show less >
Show more >This paper analyzes the relationship between students grades and their evaluations of teaching. We exploit an original data set from almost 100 courses during 7 academic years in a French higher education institution. We use teacher fixed effects to rule out any simultaneity or endogeneity bias. We find that students take their exam grade into account when they evaluate teaching. A better grade is associated with a better evaluation of a teacher's pedagogy, although the size of the effect is relatively small. A one-point increase in by-course mean grade corresponds to a less than one percentage point decrease in the proportion of students giving bad evaluations. These results suggest that it is possible to manipulate evaluations through grade or exam leniency.Show less >
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