Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!sics.se!craig From: craig@sics.se (Craig Partridge) Newsgroups: comp.org.acm Subject: Re: class/professor evaluations Message-ID: <1991Jun11.065621.2453@sics.se> Date: 11 Jun 91 06:56:21 GMT References: <1991Jun5.174820.9058@athena.cs.uga.edu> Sender: news@sics.se Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista Lines: 18 In ikluft@uts.amdahl.com (Ian Kluft) writes: >Professor evaluations are a good idea. The problem is that your chapter may be >too close to the action not to be affected by the results. My experience suggests that objective evaluations (printing means and deviations from student evaluations using numbers), and allowing faculty to review the form (not approve, review), goes a long way to keeping folks happy. If you allow students to write comments (which are very helpful to instructors), don't print them. Just print the numbers. Also, make copies of all own forms available to the professors after the end of the term. Another trick I've seen is to allow professors to decide if they want to be evaluated if their course isn't one of the required ones for the degree. (Actually, Harvard lets any professor opt out for any course, but there's some polite pressure to permit evaluation of major courses). Craig