Positivity:

When you look for the good in others, you’ll discover the best in yourself,

When you look for the bad in others, you’ll never find your weaknesses

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Teaching evaluation


A retired professor wrote:

I don't know where the pernicious notion arose, that students were somehow qualified to "evaluate" degreed professors. The article implies the obvious, namely that "evaluations" are essentially a "feel-good" way for students to get back at professors who demanded from them a student performance at the real university level. That's what a professor is supposed to do anyway. "Evaluations" are a way of corrupting faculty into compromising academic standards for the sake of supposedly more favorable "evaluations". I can hear it now: "Just put up a cute Power Point presentation, and your high rating on the 'evaluations' is assured!"

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