Oscar: Clearly, student evaluations provide the best assessment of teacher performance  Who is in a better position to judge a teacher than that teacher ' s students  Bettina: Student evaluations of teachers are usually conducted at the end of a class  However, students generally fail to appreciate the impact of a teacher until many years later
So, peer evaluations of teachers might be a good supplement or a better alternative
students are ever capable of adequately judging a teacher's performance