Hi to all,
I am currently a grad in experimental psych. These days, in order
to get a teaching job, you must have teaching experience, with good evals.
Student evals may not be the best appraisal of teaching quality, but it
does seem to be the currency of the realm. I agree that adjuncts will "do
whatever it takes" to get good student evals.
I think the real solution to this problem is to not rely on
adjuncts very much, but instead on faculty who (one hopes) have a vested
interest and true commitment in teaching the "harder" topics well.
Dawn
Dawn Morales
University of California, San Diego
Department of Psychology
9500 Gilman Drive, MC-0109
La Jolla, CA 92093-0109
