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Rodin and Rodin point out that there are two ways of judging teaching through students—ascertaining how much students have learned and obtaining student evaluations of teacher effectiveness. Some commonly accepted notions regarding student evaluations are challenged in this article, which comments on the results obtained in a number of studies. The authors suggest that “students are less than perfect judges of teaching effectiveness”—at least if teaching effectiveness is measured by how much students learn. This paper, reprinted from Science, helps to set the stage for the remaining articles in this issue.
Rodin et al. (Fri,) studied this question.