Seminar: The Effects of Student Feedback to Teachers: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Time: 13.00-14.00 hours
Location: CPB-office, Van Stolkweg 14, The Hague

Presentation: Robert Dur (EUR)

Discussant: TBA

Language: English

Registration: Please register by sending an email to seminars@cpb.nl.

Abstract subject
We conducted a field experiment on the effect of student feedback to teachers at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as well as after the experiment to assess their own performance on the same items. We find a precisely estimated zero average treatment effect of receiving feedback on student evaluation scores a year later. Only those teachers whose self-assessment before the experiment is much more positive than their students' evaluations improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. Further, we find that provision of feedback reduces the gap between teachers' self-assessment and students' assessment, but only to a limited extent.

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