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Would it be that hard to judge professors based on students success (in subsequent classes) using something like a pagerank algorithm? But that wouldn't necessa

Would it be that hard to judge professors based on students success (in subsequent classes) using something like a pagerank algorithm? But that wouldn't necessarily correlate with institution popularity and success. Academia seems to be becoming more of a customer service-oriented business where customer (student) perception is more important than the value/quality of the service provided.

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It's called "Value Added Method" (VAM) and is used in many school systems. It's also unreliable, says the American Statistical Association https://www.educationdive.com/news/statisticians-reject-value-added-teacher-evaluations/250785/ https://www.educationdive.com/news/statisticians-reject-valu... or original ASA statement at https://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/POL-ASAVAM-Statement.pdf https://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/POL-ASAVAM-Statement.p... . Details about the difficulties in the implementation, at http://vamboozled.com/ http://vamboozled.com/ , which as you can infer is against VAM. Eg: * Class composition varied so much that comparisons of value-added scores of two teachers were only valid if both teachers are assigned students with similar characteristics. * Annual fluctuations in results were so large that they lead to widely varying conclusions from one year to the next for the same teacher. * There was strong evidence that results were often due to the teaching environment, not just the teacher.