NBER paper on course evaluatioins
June 20, 2007
B. Weinberg, B. Fleisher, and M. Hashimoto, "Evaluating Methods for Evaluating Instruction: The Case of Higher Education," NBER Working Paper No. 12844.
Measuring learning using grades in future courses, we show that student evaluations are positively related to current grades but uncorrelated with learning once current grades are controlled.