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| Author: | Becker, W. Watts, M. |
| Title: | How departments of economics evaluate teaching |
| Journal: | American Economic Review
1999 : MAY, VOL. 89:2, p. 344-349 |
| Index terms: | ECONOMICS EVALUATION TEACHING METHODS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | In this paper, the authors report findings from a national survey of economics departments concerning the use of student evaluations of teaching (SET) and alternative or supplementary means of evaluating teaching, such as peer review. The use of SET instruments is controversial in many respects, but has become commonplace at U.S. universities in virtually all disciplines. In a feature article in "The Chronicle of Higher Education", Robin Wilson stated that "only about 30 percent of colleges and universities asked students to evaluate professors in 1973, but it's hard to find an institution that doesn't today. |
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