Under the guise of student-centered priorities, institutions of higher education have relied on student evaluations of teaching (SETs) as a core component of faculty assessment. These evaluations are typically presented as a means of capturing student feedback to improve instruction and measure teaching effectiveness. However, a growing body of empirical research has revealed that SETs […]
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In the fall of 1980, towards the end of my first semester of college teaching, I received a memo saying that on the last day of class I was to hand out the course evaluation forms for students to complete and return. A few weeks later, the packet of forms they had filled out was […]
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