Agreed. “Did he use enough examples to clarify his material?” and “Did he present his material in a well-organized form?” are the only relevant questions.
Why, oh why, couldn’t the experimenters have included a simple “Did you or did you not understand what this man was talking about?”
Yes, that would have been better..
I have this same problem with course evaluations in my own university.
My favorite are the course evaluations that the instructor picks up at the same time as the final exam. Before the final exam in a microeconomics course I was taking, I drew a graph on the board showing the distribution (as goods) of grades and evaluations, and showed there were benefits to trade. (I still have no way of knowing whether that had an effect or not.)
The problem is, that’s a one-shot prisoner’s dilemma, and a microecon professor ranks just below a literal sociopath in terms of how likely he is to defect on the one-shot prisoner’s dilemma.
Agreed. “Did he use enough examples to clarify his material?” and “Did he present his material in a well-organized form?” are the only relevant questions.
Yes, that would have been better..
My favorite are the course evaluations that the instructor picks up at the same time as the final exam. Before the final exam in a microeconomics course I was taking, I drew a graph on the board showing the distribution (as goods) of grades and evaluations, and showed there were benefits to trade. (I still have no way of knowing whether that had an effect or not.)
The problem is, that’s a one-shot prisoner’s dilemma, and a microecon professor ranks just below a literal sociopath in terms of how likely he is to defect on the one-shot prisoner’s dilemma.
There are reputation effects!