Re: Are student evaluations useful?

[Sam Sampere <sampere@suhep.phy.syr.edu>]

> 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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> Phil Parker        pparker@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
> Random quote for this second:
>   Tall oaks from little acorns grow.---David Everett
Why not give them in the middle of the semester?  Students know how well
they are doing by then.  You can survey student concerns at the middle of
the semester in time to make changes before the course is over.  You can
decide which student concerns are justified and which ones are not.  Base
your changes on those which are justified.  Anybody out there do that??

Sam Sampere
Syracuse University