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Tuesday, June 30. 2015

Student ratings of faculty

Student Ratings Bait Profs Into Lowering Standards, Of course. The customer is always right.


From a piece in the NY Review of Books:



In Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality, Elizabeth Armstrong and Laura Hamilton speak of “an implicit agreement between the university and students to demand little of each other.”



It's a conspiracy. For example, how many As did your kid get? Yeah, they all do.

Posted by The Barrister in Education at 13:37 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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I warn my students on day that I don't lower my standards, for their benefit. I advise them to read ratemyprofessor.com and realize it's worse than that [and I get really harsh ratings for being 'hard']. Those who remain [I lose 10-15% of them after week one] still end up on a natural curve.
#1 JorgXMcKie on 2015-06-30 21:31 (Reply)
And here is the biggest disconnect in higher Ed. If more employers were in a position to screen their applicants (skills, education, etc) better then more students (but still not all) would demand better education. As it is very few graduate schools or employers are discriminating between what a student knows rather than accepting the degree or the GPA.
#2 ama on 2015-07-01 04:41 (Reply)

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