Do students actually learn more in courses where they give teachers higher course evaluations? A study in "Meta-analysis of faculty's teaching effectiveness: Student evaluation of teaching ratings and student learning are not related" by Utll, White, and Gonzalez that was published in the just published in Studies in Educational Evaluation suggests that the answer is "no". The authors find that student teaching evaluation scores account for only 1% of the variability across courses in student learning. However, as most professors are acutely aware of, student course evaluations are very important both for getting tenure and salary increases.