March 16, 2001

What Students Can Teach Professors: Reading Between the Lines of Evaluations

By DOUGLAS HILT

For many years as a teacher, like countless others in the profession, I have experienced a familiar, even reassuring, pattern to the end of the semester. After a last-minute review session -- during which I field and, I hope, answer the anxious students' questions -- I hand out the course-evaluation forms and make a discreet exit while the roles of judge and judged are briefly reversed. Then come the final exams and the assigning and posting of grades. As I turn in the final paperwork, the

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