{"id":310,"date":"2006-06-12T12:58:18","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T12:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/12\/great-moments-in-student-cours-1\/"},"modified":"2006-06-12T12:58:18","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T12:58:18","slug":"great-moments-in-student-cours-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/12\/great-moments-in-student-cours-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in Student Course Evaluations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my least favorite end-of-term rituals for faculty is the dreaded student course evaluations. These have two components: the numerical bubble-sheet evaluations, which provide the pseudo-quantitatvie evaluation used to compare courses, and written responses to a half-dozen very general questions. The latter are at least potentially more useful, particularly when the standard questions are supplemented with some class-specific questions, and end up providing some of the most useful feedback on my teaching (though this sometimes includes things I can&#8217;t do much about, such as the student this term who described me as &#8220;loud and intense&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these also include some truly mystifying comments, such as this one from my Quantum Optics class (after the cut):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He should wear more pink.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have absolutely no idea what to make of that. I really hope my tenure committee doesn&#8217;t decide to ask me what that means&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my least favorite end-of-term rituals for faculty is the dreaded student course evaluations. These have two components: the numerical bubble-sheet evaluations, which provide the pseudo-quantitatvie evaluation used to compare courses, and written responses to a half-dozen very general questions. The latter are at least potentially more useful, particularly when the standard questions are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/12\/great-moments-in-student-cours-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great Moments in Student Course Evaluations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-education","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}