She pointed out that other
academics, such as Professor Rob Coe, have previously shown that peer observations focused
on rating individual aspects of a lesson did not change pupil
outcomes, and have suggested that it is hard to
judge teaching quality in this manner.
Several
academics have proposed algorithms for predicting case
outcomes based
on information such as the composition of an appellate panel and the ideology, gender and background of the
judges, and these algorithms have generally performed better than law professors» predictions based
on the legal issues involved.