Fill in the blank (for students and faculty members)

Students: I learn best when I ________.
Students: I learn best when my professor ______.

Faculty: My students learn best when I ______.
Faculty: My students learn best when they ______.

ratemyprofessors.com, SIRS, and skipclasscalculator.com

I'm sure that you've heard of ratemyprofessors.com, the website that lets students praise or disrespect their professors (mostly disrespect). Since I learned about it, I've often wondered if it has any impact on course selection by students or course improvement by faculty. It's certainly an interesting read . . .

I took a look at my "profile" last week -- a few days after I read the results of my SIRS. It was interesting to compare the results from the SIRS (during semester) and ratemyprofessor.com (after final grades were posted). In my case, there wasn't much of a difference. I'm not quite sure what that means.

But if my students had used skipclasscalculator.com, I wonder whether there would be any correlation with the type of comments I read? Would there be a relationship between how students rate professors and the results of skipclasscalculator.com over the course of a semester? Any thoughts?