Re:What If Students Could Fire Their Professors?
by ColinWright on Monday April 27, 2015 @09:12AM
(#9445995)
I see a common theme in this and your other comment[0]. In my experience, however, evaluations from students have next-to-nothing to do with how much the students have or have not learned, and that is the point of the linked study[1]. Quoting:
> Controlled, randomized experiments find that
> SET ratings are negatively associated with
> direct measures of effectiveness. SET seem
> to be influenced by the gender, ethnicity,
> and attractiveness of the instructor.
The other link[2] says:
> We find that teacher quality matters substantially
> and that our measure of effectiveness is negatively
> correlated with the students’ evaluations of professors.
Both these formal studies are at odds with what you seem to be saying.
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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9445924
[1] http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/Preprints/evaluations14....
[2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775714...