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Author(s): Scott Carrell1, James West1
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In the postsecondary environment, scores on student evaluations of professors are typically used to measure teaching quality. We possess unique data that allow us to measure relative student performance in mandatory follow-on classes.
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2010. Scott E. Carrell and James E. West. Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors. Journal of Political Economy. 118(3): 409-432.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/653808 . Accessed 12 March 2023.
In primary and secondary education, measures of teacher quality are often based on contemporaneous student performance on standardized achievement tests. In the postsecondary environment, scores on student evaluations of professors are typically used to measure teaching quality. We possess unique data that allow us to measure relative student performance in mandatory follow-on classes. We compare metrics that capture these three different notions of instructional quality and present evidence that professors who excel at promoting contemporaneous student achievement teach in ways that improve their student evaluations but harm the follow-on achievement of their students in more advanced classes.
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Author(s): Scott Carrell1, James West1
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