Amid the rising tide of grade inflation, some faculty members have voiced concerns that student course evaluations may incentivize professors in the tenure and promotion process to award higher grades ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your article, “Colleges Are Getting Smarter About Student Evaluation. Here’s How” (The Chronicle, January 13), may indicate that colleges and universities are paying more attention to the issue of ...

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 ...

Men are “scientific,” women are “lovely” and underrepresented minorites are “pleasant” and “nice.” If those sound like stereotypes, they are. But they’re also words commonly used to evaluate medical ...