Let me give you the other perspective, the one where we ask if the professor is payed by the University to teach. From my understanding they are chosen for their research, their interest lies in research and so the incentives are aligned towards that.
That way teaching for a large amount of academic professors is just a side-job, and comes secondary in the pecking order to researching itself. I'm specifically targeting Management/Business courses in the UK.
Now you see why student evaluations are used. We can suffer the consequences of this disconnect between incentives and foci of an academic, and that becomes problematic.
Most academics need to be kept in check, and connected to the realities of how the students experience their course, in terms of "support available"; "clarity" etc.
That way teaching for a large amount of academic professors is just a side-job, and comes secondary in the pecking order to researching itself. I'm specifically targeting Management/Business courses in the UK.
Now you see why student evaluations are used. We can suffer the consequences of this disconnect between incentives and foci of an academic, and that becomes problematic.
Most academics need to be kept in check, and connected to the realities of how the students experience their course, in terms of "support available"; "clarity" etc.