Assessing Academic Research
- Business School Rankings
- J. Scott Armstrong and Tad Sperry (1994), "Business School Prestige - Research versus Teaching," Interfaces, 24 (2), 13-43. Full Text (PDF) - The reputations of business schools were strongly related to research, even when one considers only the top schools. Teacher evaluations were not related to business school prestige
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- How to Evaluate Faculty
- "Assessing Academic Research" by Armstrong and Lilien
- J. Scott Armstrong (1998), "Are Student Ratings of Instruction Useful?" American Psychologist, 53 (November), 1223-1224. Full Text (PDF) - Teacher ratings have been shown to be unrelated to traditional learning measures. It seem likely that they are detrimental to the learning of skills. Direct measures of learning should be used, not these current ones based on happiness.
- J. Scott Armstrong (1995), "The Devil's Advocate Responds to an MBAStudent's Claim that Research Harms Learning," Journal of Marketing, 59 (July), 101-106. Full Text (PDF) - Faculty who are engaged more heavily in research spend less time in teaching, yet they do not receive lower teacher evaluations. Their students seem to learn more. Also, graduates of schools that produce more research earn more in the five years after graduation.
