While student course evaluations do provide valuable feedback to instructors, they’re also easily subject to student biases.

Near the end of each quarter, UW students receive multiple emails prompting them to fill out course evaluations. How those evaluations are implemented and utilized varies across departments and ...

Student evaluations of instructors are deeply imperfect tools that are often misused by administrators, two scholars said last month at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.

Two recent papers argue that using student surveys to evaluate professors is fundamentally flawed. At Denny's, diners are asked to fill out comment cards. How was your meal? Were you satisfied with ...

(Hat-tip to Kim Weeden for raising the question on Twitter.) Why do colleges still have students do course evaluations? Is it because administrators are knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers who don’t know ...

Tis the season for student evaluations of their instructors, so I thought I’d share some thoughts on how best for administrators to read them. In a phrase: look for outliers. It’s really about ...

At the end of each semester, college students have a chance to give feedback to their professors in the form of student evaluations, basically “rating” them. On the whole, professors are often not ...

A couple of weeks after the end of my first semester of teaching as the instructor of record, I received “the packet” in my campus mailbox — an interoffice envelope stuffed with course evaluations ...

Not too long ago, researchers at a large Midwestern university arranged to have a speaker give the same lecture to 154 undergraduates enrolled in eight sections of a required course. Or almost the ...

The saddest and most profound transformation I have witnessed nationwide in my many decades in higher education is professors’ increasing fear of college students. This fear, borne of the increasing ...