Wednesday, September 5, 1979
Professors find evaluations useful
By HAROLD CAMPBELL
Staff Renorter
Although some students might scaffold the value of faculty evaluation at the school, they may not head in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences think student comments play an important role.
"Student evaluations are taken very seriously," Jon S. Vincent, associate professor of Spanish and director of the department of Spanish and Portuguese, said Monday.
"How accurate they are, though, is another question."
Vincent said his department supplemented the student evaluations taken at the end of each semester with an evaluation form. He also had students to a year after they had completed a course.
ACCORDING TO VINCENT and Gerald Mikdelson, director of the department of Slavic languages and literature, student at the University of Notre Dame,谋ineer salary increases for professors.
He said the department tried to contact former students after they had time to consider how effective the course was.
Ernest Angino, professor of geology and chair of the department, said that even if few students took the evaluations at the end of the course would show a pattern with their answers.
"A track record will evolve from those students who answer the evaluation questions seriously," he said. "From that, we know where to make changes."
But Angino said that student evaluations with curse words were torn up.
Ernst Dick, professor of German, said he had not given faculty evaluations in more than a year because of lack of student interest.
Some professors questioned how seriously students took the evaluations.
George Worth, professor of English and former chairman of the English department, said his department took student evaluations seriously to determine changes
"I knew students just got tired of filling them out so I stopped giving them," Dick said.
Robert Welch, professor of psychology,
said he thought students did not take the
evaluations seriously because they were not
convicted of the evaluations' worth.
On his evaluations, Welch asked for positive and negative reactions to the course.
Chesler Sullivan, associate professor of English, said that he questioned the evaluations' validity, not the students' sincerity.
"It is impossible to evaluate teaching," he
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Ruben Marrillo, Hutchinson senior, said he did think course evaluations did the job.
Sullivan also said that the only effective way to evaluate teaching was through the teacher's published works as a resource. The teachers' results and not by subjective questioning.
He said the evaluation was not fair to teachers because students were asked to make evaluations at the completion of a course and not judge property the worth of a course.
GAIL EGGERS, Manhattan junior, said, "I think the teachers to them improve their teaching. Evaluation also give me a chance to steam and say what I didn't like about a class."
said. "There is nothing to keep an instructor from manipulating a course evaluation by telling his students that a good evaluation is important in getting a raise or promotion.
Students also had differing opinions about faculty evaluations.
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"I wish the information asked for was geared to the students more than to the teachers," she said. "For instance, students should be asked more questions about the
Laeure McCray, a member of the Student Senate Academic Affairs Committee, said she took student class evaluations very seriously and found changes could be made in the questions asked.
McCurdy said the Academic Affairs Committee was working to make course evaluation results available to students.
VINCENT SAID the student evaluation program was about 10 years old.
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Results of the evaluations are compiled at department of curriculum and instructors' respective departments for review. From this, Mikkelson said, faculty merit salary.
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At the time of the review, faculty members can see the results of the student evaluations, he said.
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