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Martin Argerami
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I do see what some students say about me in RateMyProfessors. But I know it's not really relevant because over the years I have been able to compare with the actual evaluations done by the majority of the students. Here are a few examples that show how those rates are largely irrelevant:

  • One semester I taught this course with 17 students. One student posted in RMP basically saying that I did everything wrong. On the anonymous course evaluations, 16 students wrote good to very good remarks, and one student wrote "everything wrong".

  • Often, reviews in RMP appear two or three weeks into the semester. Complete with opinions on how I grade.

  • Many of the reviews are clearly written from a point of view of "the important thing is an easy pass". I definitely do not teach to cater to such students.

Finally, I have never heard any discussion, neither official or not, about RMP in my faculty. The teaching evaluations carried by the faculty, on the other hand, play a role in tenure and promotion, and I know of promotions to full professor being rejected due to poor evaluations.

Martin Argerami
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