One thing any academic does (except those at grand institutions where they get to have someone else do it for them) is evaluate students through grading. Most institutions afford students the opportunity to retaliate through the faculty evaluation system in place. That usually takes places at the end of the term, although my institution now had mid-term evaluations in place.
Student evaluations of faculty always take me back to this incident in my own undergraduate saga:
One of the things that the Mechanical Engineering department required* its majors to take was Logic, which was offered by the Philosophy Department. Most of the engineers did pretty well in this course, which was doubtless a source of secret frustration to liberal arts’ professors.
One day I went up to pick up a test from the professor. The professor looked at the grade, noted that I had nearly aced it, looked at me, and exclaimed, “You’re not as dumb as you look!”
The purpose of student evaluations of me is to determine whether they agree with my Logic teacher’s opinion or not.
*Originally posted here. Since then I discovered that there was another option available, but my advisor at the time did not avail me of that choice.
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