Problems with Evaluations and Their Affects on Teachers
There are many, many problems with student evals. One problem is that students aren't customers even though they may think they own you because of the high cost of tuition. Here are a few more problems. Lastly, here's what teachers think about student evals.
Student evals affect contract renewal and this means teachers might do anything they can to increase their evals, including being a dancing monkey.
Sometime you get punished if students don't evaluate you. An easy way to make sure they do is to do the evaluations during mid-term or final exams.
Ideas for Evaluation
What should the standard be for evaluation? Make sure the evals are reliable and valid. Or better yet, stop evaluating and start mentoring.The admin should be supporting teachers.
From stuyspectator.com
Teachers don't get a break. They are always being evaluated. Here are 4 different ways teachers are evaluated. Since the admin evaluates teachers, then have teachers evaluate the admin. It would be a great way to get rid of some of the horrible administrators sitting around. Having teachers do self-evaluations can also be useful.How to Get Better Evals
- Let students use cell phones.
- Teach content courses.
- Don't tell students their grades.
- Ask for feedback.
- How to improve your evals without improving your teaching
More Articles about Student Evals
- The Guardian: My students have paid £9000 and they think they own me
- Huffington Post: A warning to young people: don't become a teacher
- Los Angeles Review of Books: Dear parents: everything you need to know about your son and daughter's university but don't
- Montana State University: Improve your teaching scores without improving your teaching! (and this shows exact why student evals are crap)
- NPR: What if students could fire their professors? (sounds like Korea!)
- Slate: It's time to kill the student evaluations
