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ERIC Number: EJ988639
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Oct
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0272-7757
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Do Course Evaluations Truly Reflect Student Learning? Evidence from an Objectively Graded Post-Test
Beleche, Trinidad; Fairris, David; Marks, Mindy
Economics of Education Review, v31 n5 p709-719 Oct 2012
It is difficult to assess the extent to which course evaluations reflect how much students truly learn from a course because valid measures of learning are rarely available. This paper makes use of a unique setting in which students take a common, high-stakes post-test which is centrally graded and serves as the basis for capturing actual student learning. We match these student-specific measures of learning to student-specific course evaluation scores from electronic records and a rich set of student-level covariates, including a pre-test score and other measures of skills prior to entering the course. While small in magnitude, we find a robust positive, and statistically significant, association between our measure of student learning and course evaluations. (Contains 4 tables and 1 figure.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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