Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/216605 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8209
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as well as a year after the experiment to assess their own performance on the same items. We find a precisely estimated zero average treatment effect of receiving student feedback on student evaluation scores a year later. However, teachers whose self-assessment before the experiment is much more positive than their students. evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We also find that pro-vision of feedback reduces the gap between teachers. self-assessment and students. assessment, but only to a limited extent. All of these results are driven by the female teachers in our sample; male teachers appear to be unresponsive to student feedback.
Subjects: 
field experiment
feedback
teachers
student evaluations
self-assessment
gender differences
JEL: 
C93
I20
M50
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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