Wise words.
Rosemary Hartigan, J.D., M.A.
Professor and Director
Business and Executive Programs
Graduate School of Management and Technology
University of Maryland University College
On 4/16/10 10:08 AM, "John Allison" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I stopped reading the written comments on my evaluations a few years ago. I
> will occasionally look at some of them, but not usually. I often wait several
> months to even open the envelope to see the statistical summaries.
>
> Who needs it? I care very much about my students and I work my butt off
> teaching no matter what, and I no longer need to read that crap.
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Virginia G Maurer
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 9:45 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: How to Boost Your Student Evaluations but are they ethical.
>
> Nancy,
>
> Please put me on the list too. And I'd like to hope it is OK to respond openly
> to the list on this because I'd like to see lots of people chip in. It would
> be cathartic.
>
> Thanks, Nancy.
>
> Ginny
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk on behalf of Ingulli,
> Elaine
> Sent: Fri 4/16/2010 8:18 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: How to Boost Your Student Evaluations but are they ethical.
>
>
>
> Nancy,
> Put me on your list--but honestly, I am of the "don't read unless/until you
> have to" school. I am always somewhat curious, but really don't see much of
> value in student evaluations.
> Elaine
> Elaine D. Ingulli
> Professor of Business Law,
> Richard Stockton College of NJ
> ________________________________________
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> [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hauserman, Nancy R
> [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 4:12 PM
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> Subject: Re: How to Boost Your Student Evaluations but are they ethical.
>
> Would anyone, besides me, be interested in creating an ALSB thread (or
> whatever a dedicated space and electronic conversation could be called) to
> sharing our "favorite" evaluation comments? Having just finished the first of
> our newly required MBA ethics course, I have a few that really made me
> smile...not for their compliments but for the manner in which their
> displeasure was expressed. I think it would be fun and cathartic to share!
> Not sure how to set this up but if some others are interested I bet we could
> figure it out. Or email me personally and I'll just set up a little mailing
> list.
> From the Heartland
> Nancy
>
> Nancy Hauserman
> Williams Teaching Professor
> Tippie College of Business
> University of Iowa
> Iowa City, Iowa 52245
>
> ________________________________________
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> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:13 PM
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> Subject: Re: How to Boost Your Student Evaluations but are they ethical.
>
> Here is a fun article about the quality of students' ability to assess
> teaching quality.
>
> http://chronicle.com/article/The-Torment-of-Teaching/45129/
>
> Robert Bird
> Assistant Professor
> School of Business
> University of Connecticut
>
>
>
>
> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Marsha Hass
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:24 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: How to Boost Your Student Evaluations
>
>
>
>
> How to Boost Your Student Evaluations
>
>
> Chronicle of Higher Education: Tricks for Boosting Student Evaluations
> <http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Tricks-for-Boosting-Student/22033/?sid=pm&utm_s
> ource=pm&utm_medium=en> , by Gene C. Fant Jr.:
>
> I often chuckle at how faculty members will sometimes wheedle and
> cajole their students to give higher marks. Local doughnut shops tend to see
> sales rise that week as professors buy treats for their classes. Extra-credit
> assignments seem to pop up like mushrooms after a nice long spring shower. Pep
> talks about how much the students make life worth living are heard resounding
> in the hallways.
>
> What is the most interesting "trick" you have seen faculty members use
> to bargain for better student evaluations? ...
>
> * An instructor up for tenure projected a picture of his wife
> and child on a large screen while the evaluations were being written.
> * A colleague who taught a large-lecture format (250 students)
> introductory logic course always had donuts delivered to the lecture hall the
> day of class evaluations.
> * Let's see: 1) announcing that the final exam will be given
> before exam week, giving students (and, not incidentally, faculty) exam week
> off, 2) announcing a curve favorable to grade inflation, 3) carrying the
> evaluations around for the final two weeks of classes, awaiting a favorable
> attendance pattern to administer the forms, 4) shifting the final exam to a
> take-home format, 5) agreeing to drop the lowest exam or quiz grade.
> * Taking the entire class out for lunch and distributing the
> evaluations with dessert.
> * Chocolate
> * Chicago-Kent law professor Richard Conviser's ratings were so
> low that he got the rating service, ratemyprofs.com, to remove his ratings all
> together!
> See http://www.lawschool.com/beforeandafter.htm
>
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