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Reflections on The RatingsTales from Real LifeI provide evaluation services for my own and other institutions. One department chair who wanted to rank faculty in his department asked me to produce reports of average student rating scores to the third decimal point. Assuming this level of precision is greatly overestimating the discriminating power of ratings and is grossly unfair to the faculty. --Jennifer Franklin, University of Arizona Quite a bit of my time as a faculty developer is spent in individual consultation with faculty members, generally on the topic of teaching effectiveness. All too frequently it happens that a faculty member walks into my office, sits down, and says something like, "My average score was a 2.85, and my department chair says I have to get an average of 3.5 by the end of next semester. How can I do this?" This is not exactly what we mean by faculty development. --Anonymous |
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