Rec'd with a technical glitch. --gw __________________________________________ > 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: > > > From: Gretchen Whitney <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: RateMyProfessor.com > To: [log in to unmask] > Date: Saturday, January 28, 2012, 8:28 PM > > > 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 > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > Gretchen Whitney, PhD, Retired > School of Information Sciences > University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA [log in to unmask] > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ > jESSE:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/jesse.html > SIGMETRICS:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > > >