Rec'd with a technical glitch. --gw
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> This paper from five years ago might be of interest:
>
> Theodore Coladarci & Irv Kornfield. RateMyProfessors.com versus formal
> in-class student evaluations of teaching. "Practical Assessment, Research and
> Evaluation". Volume 12, Number 6, May 2007. See: http://bit.ly/znvcrG
>
> Paper summarized in "Inside Higher Ed" at: http://bit.ly/yBc3Jj
>
> Bernie Sloan
>
> --- On Sat, 1/28/12, Gretchen Whitney <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>
> From: Gretchen Whitney <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: RateMyProfessor.com
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Saturday, January 28, 2012, 8:28 PM
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>
> Greetings,
> A concerned jESSE reader brought this site to my attention privately and
> asked that I bring it to your attention for discussion.
> I have not found very many SIS faculty on this site, but I have found a
> few.
>
> The reader wonders how your institution handles such student evaluations on
> such a web site, and how these evaluations factor into tenure decisions and
> other faculty evaluations. The reader notes the differences between course
> choices by students (which these appear to be having writ large), and peer
> evaluations, but also notes that there is a connection between the two: if
> students don't sign up for your courses, that is going to have a bearing on
> your evaluation by peers.
> The reader also wonders how you as an individual and as an institution
> balance negative reviews ("He asked us to do too much work!!") with positive
> reviews ("She's really sexy", "He tells great jokes", "Attendance isn't
> mandatory because he posts his lectures online", "Easy!!, "Homework was not
> collected" "I only came on test days".
>
> I and the reader would appreciate your comments on this site.
>
> And I and the reader would appreciate your comments on such student
> evaluations of professorial performance.
>
> --gw
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> School of Information Sciences
> University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA [log in to unmask]
> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/
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