Student Evaluations

[asterroc]

I guess there's a reason my union is very strongly against having students run the course evaluations.



From PostSecret

Comments

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Gah!

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Is this an actual evaluation that you saw (I won't ask whether it's yours or someone else's)?

(The comments seem like an unlikely combination: if you really want to make sure that someone is judged as being a bad TA, why would you _tell_ the administration that you removed all the favorable feedback?)

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

As noted below the picture, it's in the latest PostSecret installment.

[semiotic-pirate.livejournal.com]

Actually, this kid is a bit of an idiot. At my prior school we would give the teacher enough evaluation forms for all registered students in the class. Instructions to the students are to place all used and unused forms into the envelope along with pencils provided.

When it got to me (the person who put the evaluations into the database so the teacher and the teachers supervisor could review them) I would be aware of how many forms SHOULD be in the envelope. If the only thing in there were a couple of unfavorable evals, red flags would be placed on the entry in the form of a comment that the evaluation process was highly suspect for this class.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Our evals are done by fellow faculty during the day, and done by secretaries if at night. There are always extra forms put in the envelope, and the proctoring faculty member does mark down how many students are present and how many forms returned, but this information is not put into our personnel records in any manner, only the results of the evals.

I taught at a nerd camp a couple summers, and there a student returned the evals. One time the student never even turned them in, but I don't think that counted either positively or negatively for me.

So I guess it depends on the system, whether this particular kid's scam would work or not.

[sammka.livejournal.com]

This secret really bothered me too.

[internettourist.livejournal.com]

Funny