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Is it useful to add excerpts from teaching evaluations in a teaching statement?

Is it useful to add excerpts from teaching evaluations in a teaching statement included in a faculty application? A fair amount of teaching statements seem to contain some, but since excerpts are ...
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Can anonymized teaching evaluations be made public in the United States? [duplicate]

Can anonymized teaching evaluations be made (legally) publicly available by the teacher who received them in the United States? For example, I have seen a fair amount of teaching statement containing ...
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How to deal with poor teaching evaluations on academic job market?

I will enter the academic job market after having received poor teaching evaluations for my first and only independently taught class. Some of the criticisms were well founded, and I am trying my best ...
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Is there an advantage in including quotes from teaching evaluations in a teaching statement?

For context, I am a mathematics PhD student, and I am writing up my teaching statement. In looking up examples of teaching statements, I saw that one of them included quotes from students from ...
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How much can/should quotes from student evaluations be edited when preparing a teaching statement?

I'm writing a teaching statement and want to include quotes from student evaluations. How much can/should I edit these (for grammar)?
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