August 11, 2000

Student Evaluations of Teaching

To the Editor:

It is actually quite rare to read a Point of View piece in The Chronicle where almost every sentence, or at least every idea, strikes one as totally wrong or wrong-headed (these two designations should not be confused with each other). Lucia Perillo's "Why I Stopped Reading My Student Evaluations" (July 7) breaks the sound barrier in both categories of wrongfulness. ...

* Faculty members do not go "down in flames" on student evaluations, except in the most rare

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