Attractive female academics ‘rated as better teachers’

Students’ scoring of their teachers’ teaching quality should never be overrated in the first instance. And it’s salutary this work seeks to provide some evidence in that direction. Esoteric factors ( surprisingly many ) way outside teaching qualities do influence students’ perception and scoring , gender attractiveness being just one. Sometimes so unrelated to actual teaching quality it could be compared to a child rating one parent better than another because the one constantly pampers and the other hsrdly. Or the reverse ! Yet students participation in the assessment remains crucial, but its art must be judged against its science ... or along with it. Basil jide fadipe.

Notice how the quotations used in this article reflect resistance to scientific falsification - despite a lack of evidence for the student evaluations reflecting teaching quality, people still continue to assume and assert that it does without evidence. Amazing.