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	coffee_mug 2008-04-30 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	Additionally, I now wish my last school had a website with a secret anonymous rating system. Would've loved to write eBay style commentaries about the teachers. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	llama_treats 2008-04-30 08:17 pm UTC (link)
	A+++ WOULD SLEEP THRU CLASS AGAIN! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	coffee_mug 2008-04-30 08:20 pm UTC (link)
	V SLACK GRADER, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tangentialone 2008-04-30 08:31 pm UTC (link)
	INSTEAD OF EASY 'A' CLASS CONTAINED BOBCAT. WOULD NOT REGISTER AGAIN. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brown_betty 2008-05-01 03:15 am UTC (link)
	DAMMIT. I came to this thread to make that precise joke, only to be find you got here first. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tangentialone 2008-05-01 03:16 am UTC (link)
	Muahahahahaha, my evil plan unfurls. >D (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rowanberries 2008-04-30 08:18 pm UTC (link)
	Ooo, we have those at the end of each term! :D Occasionally a teacher will get ripped to shreds. They, however, suck it up and deal. facepalm (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notjo 2008-04-30 08:53 pm UTC (link)
	You mean, on the internet? Cuz we do class evals every semester that are just handed into the office. Having worked at universities, I'm pretty sure these things are completely ignored. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bemysty 2008-04-30 09:40 pm UTC (link)
	Not always. One of my lectures got fired for her evaluation scores (which were... well. 5.3 out of a 1.0 to 6.0 scale). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	panthea 2008-05-01 03:04 am UTC (link)
	So, uh, is 6.0 good or bad? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rikiki 2008-05-01 03:21 am UTC (link)
	Bad, in Germany, iirc. Made of fail, even. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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florence_craye, 2008-05-01 05:47 pm UTC

	bemysty 2008-05-01 08:16 am UTC (link)
	6.0 = worst. In class work, 4.0 would be the last passing grade. And in the evaluations, people are generally very, very fair, so you can imagine how much fail this lecturer was made of to get that bad an average shoved down her throat. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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jat_sapphire, 2008-05-02 03:29 am UTC

	agent_hyatt 2008-04-30 09:40 pm UTC (link)
	I've gotten into the habit of just circling numbers and not writing any comments. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pepperlandgirl4 2008-04-30 09:54 pm UTC (link)
	Having been subjected to a few, I'm pretty sure they're not. (Reply to this)(Parent)

julian_black
2008-04-30 11:19 pm UTC (link)

They don't get ignored if you're a lecturer or a tenure-track professor.

One possible reason Venkatisan is back working as a lab rat instead of teaching Freshman writing courses is because her course evals were so bad. There's so many newly-minted PhDs out there looking for jobs, who would love to have Dartmouth on their CV--so there's no need to keep bad adjuncts on staff.

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	mary_mac 2008-04-30 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	They get noticed at ours. Rather intensely discussed at module evaluations, actually. Has at least once descended into a blazing row, and resulted in a moratorium on the Drama/English cross-school modules for a while. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	waitwut 2008-05-01 02:26 am UTC (link)
	They figure into promotion, re-hire, AND annual raise time at my U. We had a tenure-track assistant professor say "oops, I was supposed to keep them?! Who knew!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rikiki 2008-05-01 03:24 am UTC (link)
	At my school the instructors aren't even in the room when the eval is done, and it gets dropped off at a central location in each building, so there's no issue of the instructors losing the papers or anything. This is just a technical college, too (though it is the third largest tertiary school in state). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	waitwut 2008-05-01 03:26 am UTC (link)
	Well, the faculty don't touch them after handing them out to the students. They come back to us, we send them to the Magic Processing Place where they process and add them all up... then we pass them back to the faculty to keep (especially as student comments aren't figured in to the overall scoring). Departments then request copies for review time. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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florence_craye, 2008-05-01 05:51 pm UTC

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	miraba 2008-04-30 08:31 pm UTC (link)
	I'm trying to find the website and question and failing. We need to find someone who goes to Dartmouth. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	wankaholic 2008-04-30 09:27 pm UTC (link)
	ratemyprofessor.com :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	coffee_mug 2008-04-30 09:35 pm UTC (link)
	Non-US schools not listed I assume? Thanks otherwise, though! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	iwanttobeasleep 2008-04-30 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	Also includes England, Scotland, Canada, and Wales, from the search options, anyway. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	evilsqueakers 2008-05-02 10:49 am UTC (link)
	I fully intend to do this after I get my grades permanently. Not just what my prof told me earlier. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	some_dude 2008-05-01 02:13 pm UTC (link)
	My school does, and then over the summer, they put together a big book that compiles all the ratings and the best comments and give a copy to all the students. It's pretty awesome. As far as I know, nobody has been sued over it yet. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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