Widespread use of SET has bred a vast army of professors engaged in pander pollution semester after semester. This pander pollution or impression management increases each year because instructors try to enhance their SET scores. There are adverse consequences of SET management, and universities should attempt to eliminate these adverse consequences. Many instructors devote much of their teaching time and effort massaging SET results for administrator and student consumption. Costs to a teacher for SET enhancement by inflating grades or decreasing course work are minor because few instructors, if any, are penalized for giving high grades or deflating coverage.
Lenient graders tend to receive more positive evaluation ratings than stringent graders.
US, where US is undereducated students. The costs of summative SET far outweigh any perceived benefits. They are antiquated for control purposes. Presently there is no written definition of an effective teacher for control and reward purposes at most universities. Measure the students beforehand, measure the students afterward, and the difference is value created.