tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post111030678207100450..comments2023-10-31T07:32:11.739-04:00Comments on Wormtalk and Slugspeak: Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566889846240013567noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-34351287762062900882010-05-02T07:41:25.843-04:002010-05-02T07:41:25.843-04:00I think that teaching evaluation is a disaster of ...I think that teaching evaluation is a disaster of tertiary education. To be honest, I have averagely higher grades than the others. However, I dare not to require students to the standard that I believe the students should have. Until we are tenured or in some countries there are not even such thing, how can you expect young scholars require students to do the right work? It is not about education anymore after all these stuff. It is about business, similar to the other KPIs, publications and the like. People nowadays are aiming more publications rather than something useful for the society.<br /><br />It is a crazy club.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-1110334950843269032005-03-08T21:22:00.000-05:002005-03-08T21:22:00.000-05:00At Cal State Northridge we have begun exploring th...At Cal State Northridge we have begun exploring the possibility of students submitting teaching evaluations online. No one knows what the implications of this brave new world may be.<br /><br />More relevant to your discussion is an alternative to student evaluations which the Cal State system has adopted. Resources will be allocated to departments only after they have demonstrated that students are achieving specified Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs). In order to show that students are succeeding, departments have been asked to insert assessment-related assignments into their courses. These are basically essays, tests, or other forms of written work that can be collected and evaluated by the departmental assessment committee, which would then decide whether the students have achieved their SLOs and make recommendations for curricular change. The work would then be kept on file and evaluated by the accreditation body every five years according to criteria which has yet to be revealed.<br /><br />The administration assures us that this will not be a major addition to our workload, though I'm sceptical. But my main point is that we have here a new form of evaluation which is not based on student opinions nor on their grades (which should be the faculty's evaluation of their successful mastery of the subject). It is also one which evaluates departments rather than individual professors, so it's not much good for tenure decisions. But something similar could be applied to individual faculty members. As an alternative form of evaluation, would it be an improvement? Or would it always be subject to the same uncertain criteria for evaluation that makes student teaching evaluations so useless?Scott Kleinmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09642536762466019138noreply@blogger.com