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  1. Evaluating students' evaluations of professors
    Author: Braga, Michela; Paccagnella, Marco; Pellizzari, Michele
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    This paper contrasts measures of teacher effectiveness with the students' evaluations for the same teachers using administrative data from Bocconi University (Italy). The effectiveness measures are estimated by comparing the subsequent performance in... more

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    This paper contrasts measures of teacher effectiveness with the students' evaluations for the same teachers using administrative data from Bocconi University (Italy). The effectiveness measures are estimated by comparing the subsequent performance in follow-on coursework of students who are randomly assigned to teachers in each of their compulsory courses. We find that, even in a setting where the syllabuses are fixed and all teachers in the same course present exactly the same material, teachers still matter substantially. The average difference in subsequent performance between students who were assigned to the best and worst teacher (on the effectiveness scale) is approximately 43% of a standard deviation in the distribution of exam grades, corresponding to about 5.6% of the average grade. Additionally, we find that our measure of teacher effectiveness is negatively correlated with the students' evaluations: in other words, teachers who are associated with better subsequent performance receive worst evaluations from their students. We rationalize these results with a simple model where teachers can either engage in real teaching or in teaching-to-the-test, the former requiring higher students' effort than the latter. Teaching-to-the-test guarantees high grades in the current course but does not improve future outcomes. Hence, if students are myopic and evaluate better teachers from which they derive higher utility in a static framework, the model is capable of predicting our empirical finding that good teachers receive bad evaluations, especially when teaching-to-the-test is very effective (for example, with multiple choice tests). Consistently with the predictions of the model, we also find that classes in which high skill students are over-represented produce evaluations that are less at odds with estimated teacher effectiveness. -- teacher quality ; postsecondary education

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/51579
    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 5620
    Subjects: Hochschullehrer; Arbeitsleistung; Bewertung; Studierende; Verhaltensökonomik; Bildungsniveau; Italien
    Scope: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 53 S., 716,13 KB), graph. Darst.
  2. Institutional reforms and educational attainment in Europe
    a long run perspective
    Author: Braga, Michela; Checchi, Daniele; Meschi, Elena
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    In this paper we analyse the effects of changes in the institutional design of the educational system on school attainment. In particular, we test whether alternative reforms have increased the average educational attainment of the population and... more

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    In this paper we analyse the effects of changes in the institutional design of the educational system on school attainment. In particular, we test whether alternative reforms have increased the average educational attainment of the population and whether various deciles of the education distribution have been differentially affected. We constructed a dataset of relevant reforms occurred at the national level over the last century, and match individual information to the most likely set-up faced when individual educational choices were undertaken. Thus our identification strategy relies on temporal and geographical variations in the institutional arrangements, controlling for time/country fixed effects, as well as for confounding factors. We also explore who are the individual most likely affected by the reforms. We also group different reforms in order to ascertain the prevailing attitudes of policy makers, showing that reforms can belong to either "inclusive" or "selective" in their nature. Finally we correlate these attitudes to political coalitions prevailing in parliament, finding support to the idea that left wing parties support reforms that are inclusive in nature, while right wing parties prefer selective ones. -- education ; institutions ; reform ; family background

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 6190
    Subjects: Bildungsreform; Institutioneller Wandel; Bildungsverhalten; Bildungsniveau; Europa
    Scope: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 66 S., 615,47 KB), graph. Darst.
  3. Evaluating students’ evaluations of professors
    Author: Braga, Michela; Paccagnella, Marco; Pellizzari, Michele
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Banca d'Italia, Roma

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    Series: Temi di discussione / Banca d'Italia ; 825
    Subjects: Hochschullehrer; Arbeitsleistung; Bewertung; Studierende; Verhaltensökonomik; Bildungsniveau; Italien
    Scope: 56 S., graph. Darst.
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  4. Evaluating students’ evaluations of professors
    Author: Braga, Michela; Paccagnella, Marco; Pellizzari, Michele
    Published: 2011

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Edition: First Version: September 2010; Current Version: April 2011
    Series: Working paper series / IGIER ; 384
    Scope: Online-Ressource (53 S.), graph. Darst.