How do we rate? An evaluation of online student evaluations

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On the Validity of Student Evaluation of Teaching (2013, background): “…can assume that only those students who really liked or disliked a teacher will be more likely to register and to share their experiences via such environments), which has consequences for the representativeness, validity, and reliability of the results (for an overview, see Davison & Price, 2009).”
The effects of lecturer commitment on student perceptions of teaching quality and student satisfaction in Chinese higher education (2015, unknown): “Previous research has found that students perceive lecturers as effective when they are helpful, caring, understanding, enthusiastic and entertaining (Davison & Price, 2009; Delucchi, 2000).”
Correlations, trends and potential biases among publicly accessible web-based student evaluations of teaching: a large-scale study of RateMyProfessors.com data (2018, background): “In one study of RateMyProfessors use, 92% of the 216 surveyed students had heard of the site, 80% had visited the website more than once, 84% of students found the site helpful and 95% found it credible (Davison and Price 2009).”