Mindy Marks, Associate Professor
Education
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Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis Economics
Research
- Labor Economics
- Health Economics
- Applied Microeconomics
Contact Information
In the News
- Do Course Evaluations Truly Reflect Student Learning?
Evidence from an Objectively Graded Post-Test
- The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required)
Dec 2010
``The Riverside economists discovered a small but statistically significant positive relationship between students' course-evaluation ratings and their learning gains from the pretest to the final exam. The effect size was far from earthshaking: a one-standard-deviation increase in student learning was associated with a 0.05-to-0.07 increase in course-evaluation scores, on a five-point scale. But it suggests that student course evaluations might actually sometimes contain meaningful signals about the quality of teaching and learning...''
- The Falling Time Cost of College: Evidence from Half a Century of Time Use Data
- National health-care, and labor-economics, discussions
- Lands of Opportunity: Social and Economic Effects of Tribal Gaming on Localities
