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Four thoughts about Student Evaluations (occasioned by sexism in RateMyProfessor.com)

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Cedar Riener

This post is occasioned by Ben Schmidt’s wonderful tool for exploring gender differences on words used in student evaluations on RateMyProfessor. 1. RateMyProfessor is a huge, but awful data set. Why awful? First, I’d bet that well under 1% of … Continue reading →

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How much does it matter how students feel?

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Cedar Riener

As I prepare my tenure portfolio, I am catching up on entering in my student evaluation data and comments into my big spreadsheet. While I don’t think student evaluations should serve as the only data by which to judge teachers, … Continue reading →

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