<p>@PelicanDad there’s a Gates Foundation study that found that kids are actually very good at assessing teacher competency although I will agree that ratemyteacher is NOT the method.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.gatesfoundation.org/college-ready-education/Documents/preliminary-findings-research-paper.pdf[/url]”>http://www.gatesfoundation.org/college-ready-education/Documents/preliminary-findings-research-paper.pdf</a> </p>
<p>“Student perceptions of a given teacher’s strengths and weaknesses are consistent across the different groups of students they teach. Moreover, students seem to know effective teaching when they experience it: student perceptions in one class are related to the achievement gains in other classes taught by the same teacher. Most important are students’ perception of a teacher’s ability to control a classroom and to challenge
students with rigorous work.”</p>