Meta-analysis of faculty's teaching effectiveness: Student evaluation of teaching ratings and student learning are not related

•Students do not learn more from professors with higher student evaluation of teaching (SET) ratings. •Previus meta-analyses of SET/learning correlations in multisection studies are not interprettable. •Re-analyses of previous meta-analyses of multisection studies indicate that SET ratings explain at most 1% of variability in measures of student learning. •New meta-analyses of multisection studies