Re: Is competence in physics as a requirement for teachers of

[George Spagna <gspagna@rmc.edu>]

At 08:15 AM 11/12/97 -0600, Joel Rauber wrote:
>
I don't think the 
> student evaluations totally irrelevent; they just need to be read and 
> interpreted by someone who has some *true* knowledge of the situation and 
> can read in between the lines.
I agree.  Further, I contend that most instruments for student evaluation
are more effective in measuring something about our students than about our
instructors.  I have been struck, for example, by a datum on our course
evaluations:  on average, students rate every course here as being harder
than their other courses.  Seems like the Lake Wobegon effect!

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