We examined web-based ratings and open-ended comments of teaching-award winners (n = 120) and research-award winners (n = 119) to determine if teaching-award winners received more favourable ratings and comments on RateMyProfessors.com. As predicted, students rated teaching-award winners higher than research-award winners on measures of teaching quality (i.e. helpfulness and clarity). A higher percentage of teaching-award recipients relative to research-award recipients received positive open-ended comments about competence, use of humour, clarity, appearance and personality as well as both positive and negative open-ended comments about level of course difficulty. We discuss implications of these findings for lending credibility to the RateMyProfessors.com indices and for promoting published faculty evaluations at post-secondary institutions more generally. (Contains 3 tables.)