Re: Are student evaluations useful?

[PPARKER@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU]

> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 10:27:28 +1100 (EST)
> From: Margaret Mary Mazzolini <304130@bud.cc.swin.edu.au>
>
> Some of Jim's comments make me wonder if student evaluations in the
> States are taken before or after the students sit final exams and get
> their grades? We do evaluations before, so they don't in general give the
> 'my teacher gave me a B so he/she's a good guy' type response.

Before, but almost at the end of the semester.  Thus most students are
all but certain as to their course grade.
   If required by the administration, these "evaluations" are useless.
(The quotes indicate the misuse of the quoted word.)

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