This article attempts to investigate a system of the teaching evaluation by students focusing on the choice of items made of teaching staff when designing the evaluation questionnaire. The purpose of this research is to study whether results of student evaluation of programmes may be used to ground professional advice to teachers. Items surveyed in the evaluation questionnaire should be selected specifically for the scheme to provide results on which to build advisory expertise for improvement of teaching practices. The results show which items provide useful information for teaching teams. They also highlight the absence of a series of items concerning student learning problems and teacher-learner relationships that questions the perception of teaching by academics in France.