The students' perception of overall teaching performance is very strongly aligned with his feeling about the course. Cross-classified data enable the separation of the effects of the teacher, the course, and the individual student groups. All three effects are highly significant and the effect of the course is by far the most prominent. Moreover, the effect of the student group is more important than the effect of the instructor.
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