Confidentially is Not Enough: Framing Effects in Student Evaluation of Economics Teaching

Kieron Meagher

No 2007-14, Discussion Papers from School of Economics, The University of New South Wales

Abstract: Contrary to previous research we show lack of anonymity is associated with large positive shifts in student evaluation of teaching. The results are consistent with the simple observation that due to higher expected future earning economics and business students have more at stake it terms of potential retaliation by an instructor. Our analysis is based on both a comparison of distributions and ordered probit multi-variate regression. These methods overcome the statistical problems associated with previous studies which looked at differences in means for ordinal responses.

Keywords: Evaluation; Bias; Survey design; Teaching economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A20 A22 C81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 6 pages
Date: 2007-04
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