Rick- points well taken !
I do however find it frustrating to note that teacher evaluations and
course difficulty are negatively correlated - I don't have the citation any
more - but sometimes it seems that the way to get good evaluations is to
have an easy class.
I've heard of someone whose admitted technigue to get the best teaching
evluations is to pick the WORST book s/he can find and assign it as the
text, then use the "good" ones to write the lectures - by comparison s/he
seems fascinating.
> Which, of course, could inspire a great many valuable classroom
>discussions on the topic of ethics (or lack thereof) among those faculty
>members who would do so.
>
> It's a student resource that doesn't violate the rights of anyone. A good
>teacher should have no fear of being publicly evaluated--and a poor
>teacher _should_ have his/her lack of skill exposed to other students.
>
> Posting false or misleading evaluations of teachers is no different than
>it would be for a commercial firm to post false or misleading reviews of
>their competitors products. If a teacher's skills can't stand the light of
>open discussion, s/he has no business in the classroom.
>
> Rick
