TEACHSOC: Re: ESPECIALLY FOR JAY AND KATHLEEN..

[Michael Klausner]

Gerry,   They receive BOTH forms at the same time. Most fill in *both* forms. BTW, I have heard the same from many of my colleagues. After I read comments on my Qualitative form, I was expecting many 4’s and 5’s on the quantitative ratings but not so.  I scored just above the “school mean” on most of the questions. Since promotion, merit raises, etc. are heavily determined by student evaluations I’m thinking of sending the qualitative responses to the Dean and Chair. However, they give them much less weight than the numbers.   Could it be that students are “numbed” somewhat after doing so many quantitative  forms that there is an “automatic “ averaging effect?       From: Gerry Grzyb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:41 AM To: Michael Klausner; teachsoc@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: TEACHSOC: ESPECIALLY FOR JAY AND KATHLEEN..   At 09:24 AM 1/24/2006, Michael Klausner wrote: Greetings:   Anyone should feel free to respond to the following but *especially* Professors Howard and McKinney.   We have both quantitative and qualitative student evaluation forms for students to do. The qualitative ones ask such things as:   What did you especially like about the course and the Professor? What were his/her strengths/weaknesses? How do you think the course could be improved?   Why that is the Qualitative responses are usually much more positive than the quantitiave ones. For example, I first read the qualitative responses from students in my Intro class and based on them thought that the numerical ratings would reflect them. However, while the numerical ratings, in response to questions, were okay they, were not as good as what I expected after reading the qualitative responses.   Administrators here only see the numerical ratings. Thus people who get better qualitative ones are at a disadvantage.   Have any of you had similar experiences?   Thanks.   Michael One quick question--are students REQUIRED to fill in anything on the qualitative forms? Gerry Grzyb