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Rewarding people in whatever way for their performance on evals creates all the wrong incentives.
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The A&M administrator has this exactly right, student evals are a measure of “customer satisfaction.”
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Stop annual evals; performance 'preview' works better
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Plus, as so many people here suggest, teaching evaluations are not very good metrics of teacher quality (and I say this as someone who consistently receives awards on the basis of my evals).
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Every student across the country should, when it comes time to do professor evals, suggest that their professors do the same thing.
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Look at the enrollment for your classes, look at your faculty evals.
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Stop annual evals; performance 'preview' works better - USATODAY. com
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Stop annual evals; performance 'preview' works better
Jobs: Employment News, Job Search Database & Job Advice 2010
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Stop annual evals; performance 'preview' works better
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At research universities, I think it would be a good idea to pay closer attention to evals, though I would strongly recommend that this be coupled with a system that fights grade inflation — e.g., by considering relative rank within a class more than absolute letter grades when GPA is being calculated. tomemos Says:
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