It’s the middle of December. A colleague of yours who teaches mechanics has just
gotten the tabulations of his end-of-course student evaluations and he’s steaming! His students
clearly hated his course, giving him the lowest ratings received by any instructor in the
department. He consoles himself by grumbling that student evaluations are just popularity
contests and that even though his students don’t appreciate him now, in a few years they’ll
realize that he really did them a favor by maintaining high standards.
He’s probably kidding himself. Although bashing student ratings is a popular faculty
sport, several thousand research studies have shown that student ratings are remarkably
consistent with retrospective senior and alumni ratings, peer ratings, and every other form of
teaching evaluation used in higher education. Although there are always exceptions, teaching
rated by most students as excellent usually is excellent, and teaching rated as atrocious usually is
atrocious.
J. Prof. Issues in Engr. Education & Practice, 128 (1), 1–3 (2002).
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