Abstract Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) do not measure teaching effectiveness,
and their widespread use by university administrators in decisions about faculty hiring …

Online education is growing rapidly and there is little doubt that it will continue to expand
until it one day encompasses the majority of higher education course offerings. Higher …

When I started writing this book, I knew I'd need to read piles of research but failed to foresee
the enormity of the piles. Education isn't just a major industry; it inspires researchers' …

We examine the long-term consequences of teacher discretion in grading of high-stakes
tests. Bunching in Swedish math test score distributions reveal that teachers inflate students …

Using longitudinal administrative data from a large elite research university, this paper
analyzes the role of peers and grades in determining major persistence in the life and …

In this article, I address the paradox that university grade point averages have increased for
decades, whereas the time students invest in their studies has decreased. I argue that one …

Universities in the United States today often proudly proclaim achievements in student
satisfaction across their marketing communications. The marketing promise is that a student …

In this article, a large data set containing every course taken by every undergraduate student
in a major university in Canada over 10 years is analysed. Modern machine learning …

Abstract At the private university we analyze, the gap between white and black grade point
averages falls by half between the students' freshmen and senior year. This outcome could …

Credit markets serve a vital function in capitalist economies: evaluating the riskiness of a
range of possible investments and channeling resources toward those investments that …