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[quote=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. " [/quote]
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