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Course evaluation scores are always significantly worse for courses that students have to take than for courses that students take on their own volition. Servic
by generationP 4y ago
Course evaluation scores are always significantly worse for courses that students have to take than for courses that students take on their own volition. Service courses (i.e., courses that are prerequisites for a different department) get the worst ratings. Any good department knows to account for this skew when it judges lecturers.
- whimsicalism 4y ago100% this. This was by far the most valuable lesson I learned in college when picking courses - you have to consider who is taking the course when thinking about evaluation. This "service courses" effect is, in my experience, by far the most strong for premed students as well.