Accounting for exogenous influences in performance evaluations of teachers

作者：De Witte Kristof; Rogge Nicky^*

来源：Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30(4): 641-653.

DOI：10.1016/j.econedurev.2011.02.002

• Teacher performance
• Data envelopment analysis
• Conditional efficiency
• Education

Students' evaluations of teacher performance (SETS) are increasingly used by universities. However, SETs are controversial mainly due to two issues: (1) teachers value various aspects of excellent teaching differently, and (2) SETs should not be determined on exogenous influences. Therefore, this paper constructs SETs using a tailored version of the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis approach. In particular, we account for different values and interpretations that teachers attach to 'good teaching'. Moreover, we reduce the impact of measurement errors and a-typical observations, and account explicitly for heterogeneous background characteristics arising from teacher, student and course characteristics.

• 出版日期2011-8
• 单位KU Leuven