April 24, 2009
They Love Me, They Love Me Not
It's that time of year again: time for course evaluations, time for students to turn the tables and let us know what they think of our performance in class. And time — even before the ratings are tallied and the comments summarized and classified — for faculty members to question the validity of course evaluations, declaring them easily manipulated, especially by inflating grades.
Those skeptics claim that evaluations are biased, often in silly ways, and point to
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