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Damn that's some grade A dystopian capitalism right there, professors needing to get good reviews from their students? Sounds like a fantastic system that won't result in professors just teaching what the class wants to hear in order to keep their jobs and raising a generation of students who know nothing but complaining when they don't get their way.
RateMyProf is an independent website that centralizes students' opinions of their teachers. Has nothing to do with job performance, just a handy way to learn if a prof is worth taking
One of my favorite professors ever had fairly mid reviews because his class involved an extensive political analysis essay on some topic and he told everyone that while his job was purely to grade the quality of the arguments, he hated having to defend chud politics to the administration. This on the back of gamergate of course
They removed my review of a prof for saying he's racist. A year later he got suspended for going ass out on twitter. Its "independent" in the same way google reviews are.
Oh, that's less worrying, but "independent" only remains that way as long as the administration decides not to use it. Sounds like a way to save time on performance reviews, so I would be worried it could turn into what I thought it was in the future.
Lol many of the professors with dog shit reviews both from RMP and in-house student reviews are still teaching at my school for like decades now. If they didn’t fire professors back in the day for being boring or talking a lot or being useless, I can’t imagine them doing it now due to RMP
It would be more worrying if this was “RateMyTeacher” because you’ll get a lot of “why don’t they teach us taxes?!” type students complaining and deranged parents complaining about rainbows and litter boxes. Teachers are usually not afforded the luxury of institutional protection.
I suppose one could abuse it with review bombing. I’ve never used it before so I don’t know how robust their authentication checks are. But other than that, it’s no different than having a bunch of kids complain during end of the semester surveys or spreading word of mouth. It’s just that with RMP, I can avoid wasting my time 80% of the time.
Fair enough, good to hear I suppose that it is largely pointless.
Ehh, it's a double-edged sword. It's good that dumbfucks can't cause problems for genuinely good professors by review bombing them, but it also means that truly terrible teachers are horrifically common at a lot of institutions. Lots of university professors see teaching as an annoying chore they have to do so they can get back to their real jobs, and since teaching reviews have no real impact on anything, they have no incentive to change. In general, the more elite the institution is, the fewer good teachers you'll encounter there, which is a shame.
Oh I absolutely used ratemyteacher in middle school and high school, I think it got shut down a couple years ago or something. It was pretty much exclusively a student echochamber, all my strict teachers had like 1 star and the chill ones 4 or 5
Ratemyprofessor's pretty much solely a tool for students (often to vent), pretty much zero chance of that ever happening
Our uni emails us feedback forms for all our professors at the end of every semester tho, but I think it's more for the professors to see. And you expect some people to complain, that doesn't dictate anything