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Course evaluations have no meaningful relationship to actual learning: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01914...

The usual argument that has been given in favour of evaluations is to show a correlation with final exam scores. The two problems being (1) small samples and (2) soft-ball exams leading to higher evaluation scores.

Humans are not able to accurately evaluate their own learning. When we experience fluency or are entertained, we substitute those attributes for the attribute of ability to recognise or recall information.




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