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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Professor here and I get ratings sometimes. They're pretty accurate and not negative or insulting for personally. The problem with sites like these is students can use harmful language or make untrue statements at will. They didn't like their grade or didn't like the professor? Then the professor is mean or not funny or worse. These statements seem to disproportionally harm women.

I have seen colleagues rate themselves, it's obvious and sad.

My kid uses it to check for faculty at the community college they take classes at (in high school) to ensure "easy" professors. So far so good.

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Another professor here. I also agree that (given enough responses) they tend to be accurate, and that professors do game them with various degrees of subtlety. One thing to note is that some professors have lower overall ratings because they teach big intro classes which generally score low, but might also teach electives that would have high scores if the scores were separated by class.

I'll add that many universities also collect student course ratings at the end of each term and make them publicly available, though they may not be prominently posted. They tend to have higher response rates than RMP though lack the text commentary. I often refer students to those - very often they don't know about them. [/quote]

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