When I began my teaching career two decades ago as an adjunct instructor, I cared a lot about my end-of-course student evaluations—but quite frankly—they mostly served as a means to job security. Over ...

It’s that time of year when faculty exhilaration at the arrival of summer break is tempered only by a sense of dread over what we’ll find in our latest batch of course evaluations. Even the most ...

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 ...

A colleague of mine once quipped that RateMyProfessor.com should be called HateMyProfessor.com, underscoring the idea that students who fill out evaluations often come to them to be overly critical of ...

"The idea of student evaluations as an assessment tool to help instructors figure out how well they are teaching has become a hot topic on most campuses," relates Terry Favero, an assistant professor ...

Melinda Laundon and Sam Cunningham do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant ...

For many years as a teacher, like countless others in the profession, I have experienced a familiar, even reassuring, pattern to the end of the semester. After a last-minute review session -- during ...

Students may disagree about the usefulness of professor and class rating services available online, but professors said the feedback they read can positively impact the course for future students. As ...

At the close of the fall semester, professors across the country will grade their students. Based on recent trends, those grades will be higher than ever. Around the same time, students will hand ...