Pernicious effects of student evaluation

[Anonymous]

Covered in the following Atlantic article. Draws out the obvious: student evaluations matter, and the easiest way for a faculty member to get, overall, good student evaluations is to make the course easy and give all the students As.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/teacher-evaluations-grade-inflation/684185/?gift=hES2-gYGuMNFzvFJOo-72ba4hqGBhAQX47VtSPKnrUU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

As a grand bonus, the opportunity to luxuriate in stereotype confirmation: "Melani Cammett, a Harvard international-affairs professor, saw her scores slide when she moved from teaching at Brown to Harvard. After deducing that a cluster of students had penalized her for assigning too much reading, she cut several academic articles from her syllabus and raised the grades she gave. "

[Anonymous]

Admin will fire us if we put up a challenge that is not fun and games for the students. Mcea are useless and expensive turds.