Student evaluations of professors' teaching effectiveness are in common use in universities. In many instances these evaluations are employed to evaluate faculty members for tenure and promotion decisions. The study showed that for one department in one university, student ratings of professors over a period of five years did not effectively distinguish among professors in the department.
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