Best way to get good ratings from students? Be male.

[dr.girlfriend]

Not surprising, but still discouraging.

www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/12/09/gender_bias_in_student_evaluations_professors_of_online_courses_who_present.html

[Balki.Bartokomous]

I expected it to be lower, but almost a whole point? Wow.

[imojoebunny]

There is ample evidence that students are not good evaluators. There was a whole article on how the teachers whose students learned the most got lower evaluations than the teachers whose students learn less. I have to leave or I would find it. It bugs my economics professor friend to no end. He gets lower than average ratings because economics is hard, too hard for a lot of students, apparently.

[aurora]

This is the kind of thing that makes me want to throw my hands up in the air and quit. Ugh.

[shell403b]

That really blows.

How about we go with what my administrators said, to have MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS evaluate us and put that in our cumulative file?

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.