Nina Zipser

Datos Biográficos

ID7245668
NOMBRENina Zipser
NOMBRESNina
APELLIDOZipser
FIRMAZIPSER N
AFILIACIONESHarvard University
ORCID0000-0002-1431-1606
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS5
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR5
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2018
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Exploring Relationships Between Qualitative Student Evaluation Comments and Quantitative Instructor Ratings

    Open AccessNina Zipser, Dmitry Kurochkin et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2025

    This study demonstrates how Structural Topic Modeling (STM) can be used to analyze qualitative student comments in conjunction with quantitative student evaluation of teaching (SET) scores, providing a scalable framework for interpreting student evaluations of teaching. Drawing on 286,203 open-ended comments collected over fourteen years at a large U.S. research university, we identify eleven latent topics that characterize how students describe …

  • A framework for using SET when evaluating faculty

    Nina Zipser, Lisa MincieliARTICLEStudies in Higher Education2025

    This paper presents a framework for utilizing Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) in faculty evaluations. Recognizing the ongoing debate about the validity of SET as a measure of teaching effectiveness, the authors agree with scholars who propose viewing SET as a tool for gauging ‘student perceptions of learning’. They present a method that combines post-estimation residuals from an Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) model, which accounts for key con…

  • Are There Gender Differences in Quantitative Student Evaluations of Instructors

    Open AccessNina Zipser, Lisa Mincieli et al.ARTICLEResearch in Higher Education2021

  • How student evaluations of teaching affect course enrollment

    Kwok W Yu, Lisa Mincieli et al.ARTICLEAssessment & Evaluation in Higher…2021

    This article examines the relationship between student course evaluations and course selection by quantifying how changes in undergraduate course ratings correlate with changes in enrollments at a large research university in the northeastern United States. We find that an improvement in a course’s overall course rating (from year t-1 to year t) tends to be followed by an increase in a course’s enrollment (from year t to t + 1). The magnitude of …

  • Administrative and structural changes in student evaluations of teaching and their effects on overall instructor scores

    Nina Zipser, Lisa MincieliARTICLEAssessment & Evaluation in Higher…2018

    Using nine years of student evaluation of teaching (SET) data from a large US research university, we examine whether changes to the SET instrument have a substantial impact on overall instructor scores. Our study exploits four distinct natural experiments that arose when the SET instrument was changed. To maximise power, we compare the same course/instructor before and after each of the four changes occurred. We find that switching from in-class…