Because university, outside of STEM (although increasingly in some STEM areas too, at undergraduate levels), is less and less about learning, and more and more about providing the "university experience" to paying customers.
Do college student ratings of classes predict how much they learn? Not at all, according to a huge recent meta-analysis of 97 studies. So why do we still use student ratings for promotion and tenure decisions?https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308344453_Meta-analysis_of_faculty's_teaching_effectiveness_Student_evaluation_of_teaching_ratings_and_student_learning_are_not_related …
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Because it's easy and accurate assessment is difficult and time consuming.
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Because someone has to entertain them.
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Metrics, including student evaluations, often seem to be developed and maintained for the convenience of decision-makers (i.e. 'bureaucrats') to have a portfolio of reasons to select from to justify to whomever whatever it is they are going to do anyway.
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Because it's easy to measure and drunks prefer to look for their keys under lampposts.
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That’s an excellent question. The situation is not unlike letting 8 year olds set their own bed time, or letting middle schoolers decide how much homework they get.
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They do? Hard to believe. What an over-indulgent world.
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