i want to hold it like they do in texas please

[daizygoddess]

 Today Professor Saveau stopped me and Kandyce and demanded to know why we were leaving the pub at 9 last night.....I want to know what he was doing that he saw us leave

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[pezfaery]

in leiu of grades in my school, we have narrative evaluations. for every course, your professor writes a brief but thorough description of how and what you did during the length of the course. you also write a self evaluation of how you believe you did, what you learned, how this will lend itself to future learning/jobs/whatever. then there's the optional but strongly suggested faculty evaluation, which goes into their portfolio and is read along with all the other faculty evals when that person is up for rehiring, raises, what have you(we don't have actual tenure at evergreen). there's also the option of a course evaluation, which i believe goes to the deans.
here's the evergreen writing center's suggestions for all of these evals(they are definitely accessible by non-students)
http://evergreen.edu/writingcenter/evaluations.php
hope that helps!

[jacci_brown]

At MSU we did paper evaluations like the ones at Franklin except that they were specific to each department so that all the questions were actually relevant to the class you were evaluating. That way the department heads were able to get the information they wanted about their professors, meaning the Political Science department and the Languages and Communications department wanted to know different things about the classes which makes sense. There is also an online evaluation that was the same for every class and when to the school rather than the individual department...this was less successful because they wanted you to do it outside of class time and there was no method to make sure everyone did it so most people didn't.

[numbertwofan]

We had course evaluations that were department specific as well. They generally came in two parts--one scantron type with generic questions (what year are you, what grade do you expect to get in this course, how many hours of preparation did you do for this course, how was this course in relation to others of the same level and size, etc) and the other was more of an open ended type thing asking for course and professor feedback. Those evaluations that were signed went into the teacher/prof's file. I also found course evaluation archives online, tabulating all the evals from a course from a specific term and the results. Of course, all professors handed these out for the class to fill out, but only a handful of them said they take the students evaluations into account for future courses. While it may or may not be related to course evaluations, I had a few professors talk about their previous term/year's classes liked certain sections of the course or didn't like a certain book so they were trying something new this go round

[daizygoddess]

thanks for the offer, but I think just knowing what UST does helps me a lot. I don't know if you remember the evaluations at Franklin, but they're all on paper and it's just a huge waste of time and resources. So my job is to compile a report with suggestions of how to make an online eval work (so that people actually do it) and just other ways to improve the whole practice. Thanks again!

[geinafets]

I think withholding grades until the test is filled out would work at Franklin. It'd piss a lot of people off, but I think they would do the eval just to get their grades.