At 1:26 PM -0400 9/7/99, Rick Adams wrote:
>> Add the fact that expected grade is the best predictor of course
>> evaluations, and the fact that freshman have no frame of reference with
>> which to grade college profs, and imho, the site is useless to
>> anyone who is not naive.
>
> Then why would an administrator or anyone other than a desparate
>student
>CARE what was said? It can't be both ways; either the site is clearly
>valueless and thus of no more legitimate concern to us as faculty members
>than is the Weekly World News site (which, at least, offers material for
>classroom discussion) or it _does_ pose a threat to our careers, in which
>case it must have far more validity than you are asserting.
Sounds a bit disingenuous.
'Useless' must be defined in terms of a particular use.
The site may be useless to a student seeking information about a course,
but useful to an administrator seeking to limit the number of tenured
faculty.
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