Student evaluations

I have been critical of the use of student evaluations of instruction. (See, for example, R. Jones, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 40, page 968, 1995) The July 2018 issue of American Journal of Physics has an article by Lee, et al, which states: "...Student Evaluations of Instruction do not correlate with conceptual learning gains..." and "...grading leniency by an instructor (i.e., giving easy A grades) does not correlate with increased student evaluations of instruction." (Am.J.Phys., vol. 86, no. 7, page 531, 2018) About 30 years ago I tried to tell our administrators and regents this but they would not listen. Some years back (~20?) I had a student admit to me that her fellow students would lie on student evaluations in order to "get rid" of or at least "make trouble for" professors they didn't like.