Students in 10 first-year courses were asked to rate their instructors. The mean ratings for each class were correlated with the mean class mark on final, common, board-marked examinations. The mean correlation was +.39, and correlations were both positive and higher than + .32 in all but 2 of the courses. Correlations were higher for experienced full-time faculty members than for inexperienced faculty members and lowest for inexperienced part-time instructors. Academically successful and highly evaluated instructors were both "task oriented" and interest arousing. Unsuccessful but highly evaluated instructors attempted to arouse interest without being task oriented. However, electing to take subsequent courses in the subject and the level of achievement in these courses was more highly related to subject's level of achievement in the first course than to evaluation of instructor.

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