Associated with this problem is a lack of rigor--and I think that
what is happening quite often is that we pick up very junior people
who are trying to get a tenure-track position someplace and so their
evals need to be strong. Well, critical thinking, challenging classes
and scientific evaluation are not the kinds of things that get "good"
evaluations. I have talked to some of our part-timers who clearly
have voiced such concerns over the evals, and who see the evals as
being important to eventually 'landing' a position. So it is not
a big stretch to think that they would try hard to do whatever it
takes in the classroom to get the good evals.
annette
Annette Taylor, Ph. D.
Department of Psychology E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Education is one of the few things a person
is willing to pay for and not get."
-- W. L. Bryan
