The impact of tenure on faculty course evaluations
The impact of tenure on faculty course evaluations
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任期对教师课程评估的影响
DOI：
10.1080/09645292.2020.1852391
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
G. Madonia
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作者：
Patrick Gourley;G. Madonia
美国大学授予终身教职为受聘者提供了很大的工作保障。终身教职的目的是让教授有能力探索新的和有风险的研究问题，而不必担心因为缺乏出版物而失去自己的职位。与此同时，这一政策创造了一种激励制度，对教授在课堂上的表现产生了模棱两可的影响。教授们可能不再关心教学评估，因为未来的评估不太可能影响他们的工作保障。或者，终身教授不再有繁重的研究优先事项，可能会将更多的资源投入到他们工作的教学部分。本文探讨了终身教职授予对学生评教的影响。数据来自一所大型的旗舰州立大学，跨越22个学期(2006-2017)。我们使用教师级别的固定效应结构来比较教师获得终身教职之前和之后的期末课程调查分数。我们发现，在获得终身教职的条件下，教授们经历了学生课程评价的小幅但持续的下降。这种影响是由课程评价分布中上半部分的教授推动的。
ABSTRACT The conferment of tenure at a United States university provides substantial job security to its recipients. Tenure is designed to allow a professor the ability to explore new and risky research questions without fear of losing their position due to lack of publications. At the same time, this policy creates an incentive system with an ambiguous effect on how the professor performs in the classroom. Professors may no longer care about teaching evaluations since future evaluations are unlikely to affect their job security. Alternatively, tenured professors, no longer having strenuous research priorities, may devote more resources to the teaching component of their job. This paper investigates the impact of the conferment of tenure on student evaluations of teaching. Data comes from a large, flagship state university and spans 22 semesters (2006–2017). We use an instructor-level fixed effects structure to compare end-of-semester course survey scores before and after an instructor receives tenure. We find that conditional on being granted tenure, professors experience a small, but persistent, decrease in student course evaluations. This effect is driven by professors in the top half of the course evaluation distribution.
DOI：
10.1073/pnas.1702121114
发表时间：
2017-10-01
影响因子：
11.1
作者：
Way, Samuel F.;Morgan, Allison C.;Larremore, Daniel B.
通讯作者：
Larremore, Daniel B.