Student evaluations of teaching don’t correlate with learning gains « Computing Education Blog.
Mark Guzdial comments on a post made on (LISTSERV 16.0 – AERA-L Archives.) by Richard Hake, who disagrees with the popular (especially among administrators) notion that student evaluations of teaching are valid form of evidence to measure teaching. I agree with him too. They’re not.
They are measures of a teacher’s popularity and have little if anything to do with how much they have learned. He also mentions something I have found to be true again and again in my 30+ years of teaching: student evaluations often go down when students learn more by working harder.
Teaching awards do NOT imply that someone is a good teacher. They imply that someone is a good politician, who knows how to get people to like her (or him).
