Study: Grade satisfaction a major factor in student evals

Image:  Yet another study is challenging the idea that student evaluations of teaching reliably measure what they’re intended to measure: instructional quality. The new study, available now as a preprint, builds on the well-documented correlation between students’ grades and how they rate teachers (i.e., students who earned better grades in a course tend to rate those instructors more highly than peers who got lower grades). After testing and eliminating other possible drivers of this...