How Departments of Economics Evaluate Teaching
基于1999年和2011年两次全国调查，本文比较了经济学系在本科教学中评估教师的方式，发现学生评教仍是最主要甚至唯一的方法，并探讨了这些信息在晋升和薪酬决策中的使用。
Based on results from a 1999 national survey, William Becker and Michael Watts found that student evaluations of teaching were by far the most widely used, and often the only method used by economics departments, to evaluate teaching in undergraduate economics courses. To investigate whether departments of economics have moved beyond the use of student evaluations of teaching, in 2011 the current authors conducted a national survey of departments based largely on questions used in the 1999 survey. The surveys included items on how courses and teaching are evaluated, and on how that information is used in departmental promotion and salary decisions.