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ean and was wold th I didn’t like it saoeney! a five-item form giving students a: : : \J fourth item, since I had tatiored my
here, I was free to go i » another ¢ college on ty to rate a faculty member on @ A week inter, 1 strolled int the same presentation to improve the low marke §
snvtime I wished le of ; with | being perfectly ciess. 1 was sunny sposition, | joke had received on it the first time around.
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The colleges and v ities maw wes The occasion of my own evaluation they had been (which was truc) and how {7 per cent on the overall survey and by
retain the student in the middle and the srompted me to undertake the following muC ui enjoyed teachin als over 46 per cent on the one item—simply
ines to the right and left. tn fact, they hay fittle study. i understand the stringencies tense). f anid that i was a fit tie disappointe by altering the circumstances of the sur
> have them, as many as will stay. The of good experiment design, and 1 do not that so few of then had taken advantage of vey's administration
stitutions that can't persuade them te call this an experiment. But, despite ite my generous office hours, but t! tood Now, I hesitate on the basis of so small a
may well have to close the OCS shoricomings, its results were interesting. ready to help them: for the rest of their atudy to draw any public conclusions, but I
in recent years, the law of ply and I chose a particularly likable ancien of college careers (true still) c » and by the have some that i am Keeping to myself. A
tebe has forced colleges and univers freshman composition cont taining 1S stu. way, Thad misplaced those faculty-cvalua- . few of them ought to be apparent to those
‘28 to give students more influe ve ne denis, § men and 10 women, ot he eure of tion surveys and would they be £0 kind as administrators who rely heavily on student
ring, rehiring, and tenuring o f the facut high school. On a Weds seaday near the end to do them agein?  - evaluations to rehire, fire, and promote
y, agroup already beset by compiles Proo- of the semester, | walked into the cinss- hat administration of the evaluation faculty members, and likewise to those in-
SENG pes in the bearish job market. OOM a nal brusquely | t ba ck an out- survey gave these resuits: structors interested in their own welfare,

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he practice of having students evaluate evaluation forms and oie them it was their interesting and strnulating erature and language at the University of
aculty members. At first, at many col- chance ta get even. Following are the point presentation of meterial 478 +17 4% Morth Carolina ai Asheville.