What biases do reviews include that make them inaccurate? 

Unfortunately, people are much more likely to depend on gender, ethnicity, and other stereotypes, rather than strategically constructing analyses across all staff that seems inappropriate and unfair to professors and faculties. Nguyen believes when students rank a professor based on “hotness”, the website loses its trust. A good-looking professor stands in the way of teaching instead of keeping the main focus on students experience in that class with the assignments and exams given. 

In which aspects do performance reviews are terrible and time-consuming? 

Usually, when a boss provides feedback to an employee the issue has already been solved. According to Sutton and Wigert, many supervisors don’t know how to analyze performance and provide feedback to employees. Another disadvantage is the long process and steps it takes to review employees’ performance. The manager seats for hours to complete a form with the worker, other managers, or supervisors. The results should be analyzed, discussed, and save for the next year. For all the steps, reviews are a waste of time. 

When do students reply to course evaluations?

Many students ignore to respond for many reasons, one of them is how interesting or boring the question is to respond to. Students with higher grades, girls, and typically white students are most likely to respond to course evaluations, according to research done by Adams, & Umbach, P.D. Students who feel appreciation for a professor or a fascinating class related to their major might interfere with the idea of leaving a comment for that admired professor. 

Feedback promotes poor education.

Mainly the people who post reviews are people with strong feelings who either love or hate the class and the professor. According to Stroebe’s findings, Native Americans who don’t have an accent are more likely to receive feedback than faculty who are non-native English speakers. Gender also influences the amount of comments professors receives, a male professor is more likely to receive a higher amount of rating rather than a female professor.  

How did Course evaluations benefit during the Covid-19 Pandemic? 

As mentioned by Dunwoody, teachers, and students found it challenging to shift from in-person classes to online education. According to Almusharraf, N. & Khahro, S the student participation in feedback responses contributed to reviewing the new method of teaching and was supportive to enhance the new form of learning. PowerPoint presentations, projects, and engagement have all been found to be successful teaching strategies.

Professional evaluations in a working environment

Customers can be persuaded to visit better restaurants as a response to user evaluations, causing lower-quality restaurants to close or to increase their quality to satisfy evolving consumer demand, according to the EHL Faculty. Reviews online are beneficial to the customers because people who already bout that product contribute with feedback which is helpful while shopping online. Almusharraf, N. & Khahro, S indicates that this method helped the faculty facilitate the learning offered and to analyze in which areas they needed to support the students. 

Conclusion

Based on the above reasons, professional evaluations are a waste of time, lose their academic goal, fatigue students, and involve professor’s stereotypes.