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Rec'd with a technical glitch.  --gw
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> This paper from five years ago might be of interest:
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> 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
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> 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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> 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
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