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A stvidy was conducted at the Bronx Community College to: (1) test the hypothesis that instructors ' knowledge of their ratings by students and of their relative standing among their colleagues it terms of these ratings is sufficient tc produce a significant change in,ratings over time: and (2) correlate the effects of instructor age, sex, tenure status, and rank, as well as knowledge of relative standing, on changes in student ratings over time. Data collected on a 13-item student evaluation of instruction form were analyzed for ten departments for Spring 1973, Pall 1973, and Fall 1975. Instructors in five departments were advised of their mean ratings for all of the sections they taught on each of the items on the rating scale and were informed of the mean ratings on each item for their respective departments. Instructors in the remaining five departments were given their own ratings and not th