Kathleen Turner and Terry Valiga recently published an article entitled "Student Evaluations of Teachers and Courses: Time to Wake Up and Shake Up" in Nursing Education Perspectives. Debi Hatton is a co-author. 

The process of soliciting feedback from students about their teachers and the courses they take occurs every semester in, most likely, every nursing program in the country. Paper-and-pencil or electronic forms are distributed, reminders are sent to enhance response rates, data are analyzed, reports are prepared, and faculty take deep breaths before reading what students have said about them and the courses they teach. In many institutions, student evaluations weigh heavily in reappointment, promotion, and tenure decisions, and input from students can also prompt changes in the curriculum, including course focus, placement, or credits.