> Students are notoriusly bad at rating their professors I wonder whether this was because they weren't asked the right questions. The Air Force survey [1] se

> Students are notoriusly bad at rating their professors I wonder whether this was because they weren't asked the right questions. The Air Force survey [1] seemed to have more broad, abstract questions like "The instructor's effectiveness in facilitating my learning in the course was good/bad/etc." or "Value of questions and problems raised by instructor was good/bad/etc." or "Amount you learned in the course was lots/little/etc." The Gates survey [2] seemed to have more fine-grained, specific questions like "My teacher knows when the class understands." and "My classmates behave the way the teacher wants them to." and "The comments I get help me know how to improve." [1] http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/staiger/files/carrell%2Bwest%2Bprofessor%2Bqualty%2Bjpe.pdf http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/staiger/files/carre... [2] http://www.metproject.org/downloads/Asking_Students_Practitioner_Brief.pdf http://www.metproject.org/downloads/Asking_Students_Practiti...