Student evaluation based indicators of teaching excellence from a highly selective liberal arts college

Aju Fenn

International Review of Economics Education, 2015, vol. 18, issue C, 11-24

Abstract: The paper uses individual level data from each student that has enrolled in each class in the department in the last five years. Unlike several past studies that lack data on teaching quality measures Ordered Probit models reveal that the significant determinants of effective teaching, based on student evaluations of teaching (SET) are: organization, clarity of exposition, availability and enthusiasm of the instructor. The gender and race of the instructor is significant with female and non-white instructors being downgraded by students. The usual findings of expected grades inflating teaching evaluations are contested by the empirical evidence from this paper.

Keywords: Teaching; Evaluations; Determinants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 A22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.iree.2014.11.001

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