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That’s why you don’t use the threshold to trigger anything more punitive than further investigation. And sure, tune the threshold to the department. But also co
by cimmanom 8y ago
That’s why you don’t use the threshold to trigger anything more punitive than further investigation. And sure, tune the threshold to the department. But also consider that maybe teaching is better on average in some departments than others. (For instance, the drop-off in teaching quality from high school to college in my experience was enormous in math and arts but slight in both sciences and humanities. Which seems to me more like a problem with the math and art departments’ approaches to hiring or teaching than with math or arts as subjects.)
- joe_the_user 8y agoThat’s why you don’t use the threshold to trigger anything more punitive than further investigation. And by "you", you mean "no one ever". Teacher evaluations have immediate and universal impact. There is essentially no filter and no interpretation on this. It's like tweets. Once a social signal is out-there, public, everyone is acting on the implications regardless of hypothetical mitigating factors. A lot of people talk about this stuff in the abstract, as some hypothetical, like we'll do this and we'll have safeguards in place. The news is, this is how things have been for college teachers for a while. You get an evaluation and it has an impact and there's no mitigation and no contextualizing.