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No, it's only the overall rating that counts, and yours better be above
average in your "group" and college. Today we were told about a case
for promotion to full where there was great concern that the candidate
was only above average 6 out of 8 years.
We're not entirely certain how it gets treated for us, as I mentioned in
brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>past, some administrators have made distinctions between faculty with
different overall average scores; where the difference was probably well
within error bars. Having tenure helps of course; but getting tenure and
obtaining promotions are affected by these numbers, but not in any clear
way.
At my school, in a recent evaluation I was told that my overall evaluation
suffered for two reasons. First, I had one class where the student
evaluations were too high (all 100% positive), combined with the fact
that the students all did very well (3rd class in a sequence, they all
got C or better). It apparently seemed obvious that I had taught to the
student evaluations. Second, IN THAT SAME QUARTER, I had a small class of
calc-based electricity & magnetism. The students had a hard time with my
class (they were not well prepared for the course and wouldn't put out
the extra effort I felt they needed to make up the deficiency.) and my
evaluations for that class were slightly below average (most questions were
average while a few were below). Because it was not a "large class" and
the evaluations were infact below average, I apparently had not taught
well or talken into account the student needs. As a result of the two, I
received a lower overall evaluation. I tried to exaplain that the two
comments were in direct oppostion to each other, especially being about
classes from the same quarter, but it fell to deaf ears.
BTW, the student evaluations for the calc-based physics and the
algebra-based physics are lumped together to form the average physics
studnet evaluation. And, part-time faculty (about 50%) are combined with
full-time faculty. Part-timers don't get rated according to student
evaluations, though the forms are filled out by students and scored.--
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Mariam W. Dittmann
555 N indian Creek Drive
Clarkston, GA 30021
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