They should be a data point. We had a professor let go due to the student evals, and that was a good thing for the university. I can see where the article and o

They should be a data point. We had a professor let go due to the student evals, and that was a good thing for the university. I can see where the article and op are coming from as a former educator, but there does need to be a feedback loop. The story on our professor. She could not communicate ideas well and proceedures worse. This was a second or third year accounting class. She would present some procedure on calculating some complex set of ratios. Students would be confused and ask for clarification on where different values came from (they seemed to originate from nowhere). She would pause. Look sideways at us. And ask I'd we new how to add and subtract, shake her head, ignore the questions, and move on. Evaluations we're the lever that students had to help correct the system.