November 10, 2000
Bursting the Bubble Sheet: How to Improve Evaluations of Teaching
It is now commonplace for students to evaluate their professors, usually by filling out bubble sheets late in the term. A typical form has a dozen or more questions, many with multiple parts. For example, one question in a form I have seen asks, "Does the instructor meet his/her classes regularly? Does he/she keep his/her office hours? Are there any regrettable irregularities in his/her behavior?"
Staff members typically enter the students' ratings into a computer and give them
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