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The thing that strikes me is how small the sample sizes are - most students really can't be bothered to fill out evaluations, and those who do are probably not
by Fomite 12y ago
The thing that strikes me is how small the sample sizes are - most students really can't be bothered to fill out evaluations, and those who do are probably not an unbiased sample. There's often maybe a handful of evaluations per year for anything but massive lecture classes. It's hard to even make meaningful or realistic estimates of the quality of a teacher from that data.
- bobochan 12y agoVery true, but there are certainly ways that schools can up the response rates if they are interested. Some schools authentication systems that store a student's ID on one system when they complete the evaluation and the actual response anonymously on another system. You can then set policy to say, "Your final grades will not be released until you complete the course evaluation." I have also noticed that giving students 10 minutes at the beginning of the last class, with the professor leaving the room, helps the rate.