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 How many of you have your job performance formally evaluated regularly, say three times a year, by teenagers? This is not a pretty sight and then to have the data taken seriously by supervisors makes matters even worse.  This is the life of college teachers and it works to undermine the quality of courses.  Faculty, especially those not yet tenured, are forced to cater to the fickle whims of students with customer satisfaction being more important than rigor.  Low evaluation numbers can torpedo a resume or a merit review.  Keeping them happy and entertained does wonders for evaluations scores while the quality and quantity of what is learned is rarely measured.  

10-7-18

# posted by Rockdoc @ 4:12 PM