Attractiveness, easiness and other issues: student evaluations of professors on Ratemyprofessors.com

By J. Felton, P. T. Koper, John B. Mitchell, Michael Stinson. 2008

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Measuring teaching quality in higher education: assessing selection bias in course evaluations (2017, background): “19 With the notable exception of work on websites such as ratemyprofessor.com: e.g. see Felton et al. (2004, 2008); Timmerman (2008).”
Examining student satisfaction with higher education services: using a new measurement tool (2010, methodology): “Further, Felton et al. (2008) describe current developments using web-based student evaluations of teaching such as “Ratemyprofessors.com”.”
Correlations, trends and potential biases among publicly accessible web-based student evaluations of teaching: a large-scale study of RateMyProfessors.com data (2018, methodology): “Felton et al. (2008) provided an update to the work of Felton, Mitchell, and Stinson (2004) by considering a larger data-set of 6582 faculty members and hotness scores that included both positive and negative values.”
Student Evaluations of Teaching Encourages Poor Teaching and Contributes to Grade Inflation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (2020, background): “The students therefore give the reward of good SETs to teachers who grade leniently (e.g., Anderson et al., 1975; Greenwald & Gillmore, 1997a; Griffin, 2004; Olivares, 2001) and do not require too much work (e.g., Felton et al., 2008; Rosen, 2018).”