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Do they ever know who writes them? How seriously do departments take teaching evaluations? If a professor knows which student wrote a particular evaluation....would they be biased (e.g. be nicer, etc...)?

Please include in your answer a short description of what type of school you are at, and what you do there. Answers presumably vary between research universities and four-year colleges, for example. Also, professors and students could reasonably have different access to information about how teaching evaluations are used.

Do they ever know who writes them? How seriously do departments take teaching evaluations? If a professor knows which student wrote a particular evaluation....would they be biased (e.g. be nicer, etc...)?

Please include in your answer what country you are in and a short description of what type of school you are at, and what you do there. Answers presumably vary between research universities and four-year colleges, for example. Also, professors and students could reasonably have different access to information about how teaching evaluations are used.

Do they ever know who writes them? How seriously do departments take teaching evaluations? If a professor knows which student wrote a particular evaluation....would they be biased (e.g. be nicer, etc...)?

Do they ever know who writes them? How seriously do departments take teaching evaluations? If a professor knows which student wrote a particular evaluation....would they be biased (e.g. be nicer, etc...)?

Please include in your answer a short description of what type of school you are at, and what you do there. Answers presumably vary between research universities and four-year colleges, for example. Also, professors and students could reasonably have different access to information about how teaching evaluations are used.