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To: bs9021

Ratemyprofessors.com is a good idea! Professors, especially tenured ones, are practically immune from sanction. Let them be rated and defend themselves.


2 posted on 01/28/2008 11:07:27 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

This professor has no problem (in practicality) being evaluated by students. I seem to have pulled the wool over their eyes, as they always rate me pretty high. But theoretically, I think it is wrong to have the students evaluate their teachers. But it’s never hurt me.


5 posted on 01/28/2008 11:11:49 AM PST by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
As one of the rated professors, I have my own opinion on this. My experience is that there is inconsistency across professors. My own ratings vary between: “Awesome professor” to “the worst in the department”, and that’s for students in the same class and (evidently) the same semester.

I really don’t care to find out the names of any student. What would be more interesting to me is the correlation between their grade and their comments. In the relatively few cases where I know the student’s ranking of me (we do university-wide student evaluations each semester), there is almost a perfect inverse correlation. That is, the students who don’t come to class, don’t do well on exams, and score badly in the course consistently give me the lowest ranks and vice versa. Given that information and my low ranking by some, it would be nice to see some honesty by the students if, when they bad-mouth a professor, they also point out that they only attended a third of the lectures and never turned in any of the homework.

10 posted on 01/28/2008 11:25:26 AM PST by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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