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Re: Student Evaluations of Teaching

On Sat, 01 Jan 2000 18:53:23 -0500 Jerome Epstein
<jerepst@WORLDNET.ATT.NET> writes:


If a gpa of 3.67 reflects the same kind of work as a gpa of 2.67 25
years ago, we are badly misleading the students -- and ourselves.
I think it is a scandal.

Yes... But.... Does a dollar today purchase the same amount of groceries
tat it did 25 years ago? Are you also scandalized because a teacher
today
earns a much higher salary than a teacher of 25 years ago despite
the fact that he may not be as good as his predecessor?

Herb gottlieb from New York City
(Where monetary inflation and grade inflation have both occurred during
the past 25 years. Scandalous??)