Analysing RateMyProfessors Evaluations Across Institutions, Disciplines, and Cultures: The Tell-Tale Signs of a Good Professor
@inproceedings{Azab2016AnalysingRE,
title={Analysing RateMyProfessors Evaluations Across Institutions, Disciplines, and Cultures: The Tell-Tale Signs of a Good Professor},
author={Mahmoud Azab and Rada Mihalcea and Jacob D. Abernethy},
booktitle={Social Informatics},
year={2016},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:10948423}
}A large corpus of student evaluations collected from the RateMyProfessors website is used, showing that it can reliably classify good professors from poor professors with an accuracy of over 90 %, and it can separate the evaluations made for good professors by different groups with accuracies in the range of 71–89 %.
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