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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. 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
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    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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  3. The academic and labor market returns of university professors
    Author: Braga, Michela; Paccagnella, Marco; Pellizzari, Michele
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    This paper estimates the impact of college teaching on students' academic achievement and labor market outcomes using administrative data from Bocconi University (Italy) matched with Italian tax records. The estimation exploits the random allocation... more

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    This paper estimates the impact of college teaching on students' academic achievement and labor market outcomes using administrative data from Bocconi University (Italy) matched with Italian tax records. The estimation exploits the random allocation of students to teachers in a fixed sequence of compulsory courses. We find that good teaching matters more for the labor market than for academic performance. Moreover, the professors who are best at improving the academic achievement of their best students are also the ones who boost their earnings the most. On the contrary, for low ability students the academic and labor market returns of teachers are largely uncorrelated. We also find that professors who are good at teaching high ability students are often not the best teachers for the least able ones. These findings can be rationalized in a model where teaching is a multi-dimensional activity with each dimension having differential returns on the students' academic outcomes and labor market success.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/93362
    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 7902
    Subjects: Hochschullehrer; Hochschullehre; Wirkungsanalyse; Studierende; Bildungsertrag; Einkommen; Erwerbsverlauf; Schätzung; Italien
    Scope: Online-Ressource (41 S.), graph. Darst.
  4. The academic and labor market returns of university professors
    Author: Braga, Michela; Paccagnella, Marco; Pellizzari, Michele
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

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    Series: Array ; 10283
    Subjects: Hochschullehrer; Hochschullehre; Wirkungsanalyse; Studierende; Bildungsertrag; Einkommen; Erwerbsverlauf; Schätzung; Italien
    Scope: 42 S., graph. Darst.
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  5. The academic and labor market returns of university professors
    Author: Braga, Michela; Paccagnella, Marco; Pellizzari, Michele
    Published: October [2014]
    Publisher:  Banca d'Italia, [Rom]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    Series: Temi di discussione / Banca d'Italia ; 981
    Subjects: Hochschullehrer; Hochschullehre; Wirkungsanalyse; Studierende; Bildungsertrag; Einkommen; Erwerbsverlauf; Schätzung; Italien
    Scope: 45 Seiten, Illustrationen
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