Course Evaluation
How appropriate is it that I be contacted regarding a negative course evaluation this morning?
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How appropriate is it that I be contacted regarding a negative course evaluation this morning?
Are grades in / out yet?
Grades are out tomorrow
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Josh Gaber
Put 1000 monkeys in front of 1000 terminals, and they'll eventually code Windows Vista
Did you sign your comment?
Did you sign your comment? There's normally a checkbox that indicates whether your eval is signed. If you did not sign your comment, CCS is not supposed to release your identity 'unless compelled by legal obligation', and neither is the department administrator.
Not that professors can't make reasonable guesses based on content and vocabulary, but they aren't really supposed to flaunt that knowledge.
Regardless, I think it's fairly suspect that you have been personally contacted. At this point, you cannot change your evaluation. And any single evaluation, no matter how vitriolic, will likely never resurface beyond the next promotion & tenure committee meeting.
What could a professor hope to gain?
-- Tony
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I believe grades were due on Monday, so even if you could not view them on WebAdvisor, they were already submitted. It is to my knowledge that professors aren't supposed to receive ANY feedback, signed with comments or unsigned/anonymous numerical evaluations, until after grades have been submitted. Therefore, I don't think a negative review would hurt your grade.
Even if the professor had only good intentions (in example, to improve their teaching), I can't imagine students would be comfortable being contacted about such things. I'm not sure if, by signing, you are waiving the right to not be contacted about your review. I've never signed any of my reviews, good or bad, because I don't want any chance of additional hassle later on.
Exactly, and your feelings
Exactly, and your feelings are a great example of how the system is broken, or at least how an electronic system has faithfully replicated the failures of the paper system.
With paper slips, professors seeking advancement had to request students sign their slips. It wasn't really a documented part of the process, and it was apparent that signing meant the prof would know your identity.
Now, CCS can take signed evals, give unsigned copies to the prof and signed copies to the promotions & tenure committee. So why not?
Faculty and course
Faculty and course instructors are not given any feedback on evaluation until our grades are submitted and we've signed the final grading sheet. Even then we're only given paper copy of the the evaluations in aggregated form, followed by a sheet of comments. We have no way to link the actual multiple choice answers back to a specific comment (an improvement over the paper versions from a student perspective).
We get all the comments which are identified by a name only if you ticked the appropriate box.
Personally I would never contact a student about a comment- but that's just me. You can however, rest assured that your comment cannot have affected the grading.
I was contacted about a
I was contacted about a negative course comment once, and it actually turned into a pretty good discussion between myself, the prof, and how things in the course could be changed for the better.
The prof in question was teaching the same course the next year, and really genuinally wanted some feedback on why so many students had commented on selected areas of the course eval.
That being said, I agreed to meet with them only on account of my generally good relationship with the professor. Had it been someone else, I might have been less comfortable with it.
Just remember, it's well within your rights to just ignore it and move on...nobody can force you to discuss matters.
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Jon "slyfox" Spenceley
4th year Big Jerk
Treasonous Teeter-Tottering Traitor
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