Interesting article on Slate: The Hottest Professor on Campus; What Happens When Students Rate Their Teachers Online
Dear Professors, the college students of America are silently judging you. While you are nattering on in lecture, they are clicking over to RateMyProfessors.com—remember, more than 42% of college classrooms now have wireless—and assessing your performance. As of yesterday, the site had 4.5 million ratings of 676,416 professors. They’ve been grading you on "easiness," "helpfulness," and "clarity." And if they think you’re hot, they award you a red chili pepper, which appears next to your name. It also adds one point to your "Hotness Total." Perhaps you’ve already looked at the site and checked out your rating. If you haven’t, let me save you some time. All across this great collegiate land, students want pretty much the same things.
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