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Most educational institutuions use student evaluations to help measure faculty performance. Despite their ubiqulty, many faculty argue that students are not qualified or objective enough to evaluate instructor performance. Do you believe student evaluations are valuable additions to faculty performance evaluations, or do you believe they are worthless at best and dangerous at worst?

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Evaluations by students can be helpful in determining the validity of teachers only to a certain extent and they can cause harm in some educational institutions. When done with the sole purpose of gauging the experiences of ...

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