chewydog1
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« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2007, 05:36:16 PM » |
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If a student wrote on the board you stunk, or on the bathroom wall you were a crappy teacher, would you reply?
RMP is the modern day bathroom wall.
Who cares!
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busyslinky
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« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2007, 06:14:44 PM » |
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This is a unisex bathroom that anyone can enter from anywhere in the world and read the message very clearly. If it has your name and where you are located on it and it may influence your career in some way...ummm it may be a concern. But, life is too short to worry about everything. You should pick your worries.
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killerapp
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« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2007, 06:22:00 PM » |
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Chill out. RMP has no integrity, so add as many ratings as you want. Indeed, I think academics should do what they can to undermine RMP in subversive actions.
I agree that the site is a joke and we shouldn't give it any extra thought--despite what some posters say about the ratings being inline with what s/he knows about about other people's teaching practices. However, after reading a CHE article about a professor in Saskatchewan who was fired for creating false ratings about other faculty, one might think twice about creating false ratings, even if they are in jest rather than malicious. Though I think it's sad that the professor in question even bothered to use that tactic, I think it's ridiculous that the University fired him because of it. This other forum on RMP will take you to the article in question. |
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busyslinky
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« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2007, 06:28:28 PM » |
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I agree that the site is a joke and we shouldn't give it any extra thought--despite what some posters say about the ratings being inline with what s/he knows about about other people's teaching practices. That person is a charlatan, don't believe them. |
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killerapp
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« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2007, 06:33:34 PM » |
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That person is a charlatan, don't believe them.
Good to know. In that case, I will take what ever that person says with a whole shaker of salt. |
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spirosdarlotts
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« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2007, 06:50:44 PM » |
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I feel like and idiot and will never do it again.
Has anyone ever done this?
Had RMP been around when I was a young professor I might have done the same thing. Don't put another throught toward it. RMP is a joke - albeit a pretty public and sometimes damning one. Do a good job in your class. Don't sweat RMP or the idiots who love or fear it. |
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larryc
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« Reply #22 on: January 17, 2007, 07:12:15 PM » |
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I was also wondering if you could get in trouble with your institution for doing this. I noticed that my profile is now "Restricted." I feel like and idiot and will never do it again.
Has anyone ever done this?
We fired a guy for doing this last year. Right in the middle of the semester! Security changed the locks on his door and escorted him off campus. Kidding! No one cares, my chair would congratulate you on your initiative. |
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killerapp
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« Reply #23 on: January 17, 2007, 10:12:49 PM » |
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We fired a guy for doing this last year. Right in the middle of the semester! Security changed the locks on his door and escorted him off campus.
Wow! So either you work at the U of Saskatchewan or more than one school has fired someone for playing an impostor student on RMP! Hah. Note to self: no writing glowing reviews for myself or my friends (activities many people owned up to on this thread and the other one I mentioned previously). Too bad, really. I thought that sounded like a great way to render the ratings useless and sabotage the whole system! |
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« Reply #24 on: January 17, 2007, 11:20:31 PM » |
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We fired a guy for doing this last year. Right in the middle of the semester! Security changed the locks on his door and escorted him off campus.
Wow! So either you work at the U of Saskatchewan or more than one school has fired someone for playing an impostor student on RMP! Hah. Note to self: no writing glowing reviews for myself or my friends (activities many people owned up to on this thread and the other one I mentioned previously). Too bad, really. I thought that sounded like a great way to render the ratings useless and sabotage the whole system! Scroll down in LarryC's post, Killer. |
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killerapp
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« Reply #25 on: January 17, 2007, 11:24:29 PM » |
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Scroll down in LarryC's post, Killer.
I did. I intended my reply to be humorous, but apparently I'm no comedian. The story in the CHE is real, however, so obviously someone did do exactly what LarryC described. |
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spicoli
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« Reply #26 on: January 18, 2007, 12:44:20 AM » |
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LarryC, you telling us that a professor was fired for rating himself on RMP?
This seems odd to me, if not down right scary.
Makes me wonder if we should be careful on these message boards. I've read some questionable posts here that could easily offend or be deemed unprofessional.
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hal2001
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« Reply #27 on: January 18, 2007, 06:15:18 AM » |
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Why worry about RMP? This incident up North is frightening, but why would anyone need to bother writing stuff on RMP? It may be funny to look at what is there and it may or may not track with formal student evaluations of a particular person (which, after all, are not very different from RMP except in that they do not - anywhere I've worked anyway - include a "chili pepper" and you theoretically have to be registered for the course to fill one out). Even at a SLAC where I taught that genuinely cared a great deal about teaching, no one would fail tenure or get fired *purely* on the basis of student evaluations (though, if these were consistently very bad, additional forms of teaching review would be ramped up and increase in importance). At most research schools, teaching is an afterthought at best in terms of faculty rewards and evaluation (unless you are not showing up to class, not turning in your grades, harrassing your students sexually or otherwise, etc). So, to echo so many others posting here: relax and stop trying to "subvert" or "adapt to" RMP!
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rizzy
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« Reply #28 on: January 21, 2007, 01:24:26 AM » |
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Just an idea: ratemystudents.com. Can you imagine the reaction? Can you imagine how hurtful ... but wait a minute, that's just what's being done to profs.
I'm in a new TT job and I feel that my privacy has already been violated by ratemyprofessors.com. They found a picture through the college web site and posted it on their web site. It makes me so angry sometimes. I haven't been trashed yet but it's probably inevitable despite my ceaseless efforts to do good work. And furthermore I feel so upset that they are allowed to post my picture without my permission. Anyway I'm not saying anything that others haven't said. When will legal efforts bring the site down? I hope, sometime soon.
If profs started ratemystudents.com then every time a ratemyprofs.com posting goes up, we could add another entry on a student. It would be like the Joker in Batman or Lex Luther in Superman. Anyway, I guess this would just make it worse by promoting the values that are so repellent with ratemyprofs.com.
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« Reply #29 on: January 21, 2007, 08:41:44 PM » |
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roseisabelle, I believe there was a rate my students website. I think it's changed its format and I haven't really followed it. Students were indeed not pleased. teehee
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Who looks for God in the Bible? That's pretty dumb.
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