just wondering

4/22/2008 11:07:00 AM

supposedly

i'm sure if you put something about wanting to kill your professor on there, they can track you down

4/22/2008 11:11:21 AM

They are anonymous, your professor will not know who wrote what. Unless you put something very specific down. The administration knows what unity log in was used to submit the evaluations. So unless you put a threat in your evaluation no one will look further then what you wrote down.

4/22/2008 12:23:53 PM

from the classeval link:

Quote :

"Your class evaluation is confidential. No personally identifying information (e.g., your name, Unity ID) will be included in the results given to instructors. Instructors will not be able to identify responses from individual students. No reports will be given to instructors until grades have been posted."

4/22/2008 12:48:38 PM

I teach and I get class evaluations. They are 100% anonymous. Additionally, the only people who see them are the instructor and the head of the department in which the class was offered. With the new system, instructors get evaluations about 6 weeks after the end of the course instead of 6 months under the old system. Instructors and department heads also get department wide and university wide statistics... things like the average instructor is rated a 3.4567 and things like that.

4/22/2008 12:53:05 PM

from what i heard from a professor, if the response rate isn't around 70-80% this year, then they might start phasing out the online evals. guess i wasn't the only one ignoring the e-mails.

4/22/2008 2:00:11 PM

and 80% isn't reaaaaly statistically significant.

4/22/2008 3:38:35 PM

It's not like the evaluations have any effect anyway.

4/22/2008 5:27:05 PM

^ They act as a guide for instructors that actually care. Beyond that, they don't do a whole lot other than let the university collect some barely useful statistics.

4/22/2008 11:52:11 PM

i filled out all the comment sections in Japanese.

4/23/2008 5:55:00 PM

remember when you got evaluations and you always gave perfect scores


remember when you started filling out evaluations correctly


shits crazy man

4/23/2008 6:03:45 PM

^what?

4/23/2008 6:33:43 PM

I know that for E115, we have individual class evaluations that are anonymous when accessing normally. However, the admins can go in and find the unityID of an individual if something harassing, threatening, or otherwise alarming is written.

don't know bout the classeval.ncsu.edu ones. probably around the same lines though.

4/24/2008 9:59:06 AM

^ That could be done in theory, but there's no way a instructor could do that. Also, since the whole process is automated now, no one looks to see what they say before they're compiled and disseminated to the instructors.

4/24/2008 11:00:08 AM

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4/24/2008 11:40:43 AM

useful as they may be... i really stopped caring about class evals after the semester i got around 8-10+ emails about them... we get enough spam through ncsu, except now it just comes from the inside. it's been about as bad this time around... it's interesting that i sent a reply to one of those telling them to stop spamming me, and all they said was that if i filled out the evals then i wouldn't receive any more. at least the \/1AGr4 ones pretend to have an unsubscribe link

4/27/2008 3:37:04 AM

just got all my shits done

4/27/2008 4:53:09 AM

Quote :

"all they said was that if i filled out the evals then i wouldn't receive any more"

Well then fill them out. It doesn't take that long.

4/27/2008 10:24:30 PM

Quote :

"Your class evaluation is confidential."

Confidential =/= Anonymous

If the administration had to, they could link it to the evaluator. Under normal circumstances, however, no one will know--or care--that it's you.

4/28/2008 1:37:32 AM

Please for to fill them out. I read my classes eval's thoroughly and take them pretty seriously.

4/28/2008 5:46:01 AM

When I was a TA, I never was allowed to read my evaluations

They kept offering me a job each semester though, so I guess I was doing good enough.

4/28/2008 2:11:16 PM

^ How did you not get to read your evaluations? No one is even supposed to look at them but you and the department head.

4/28/2008 2:26:15 PM

actually, I would say the majority of TAs don't know how to access those evals. And probably a lot of teachers don't either. Plus, I don't know if any department heads would EVER take the time to read individual class evals. The bottom line is

80% CHANCE NO ONE IS GOING TO READ WHAT YOU WRITE

(but they will send you emails telling you to do it anyway)

4/28/2008 3:03:12 PM

^ How would they not know how to access the evaluations? You get an email giving step-by-step instructions on how to do so. It's not exactly difficult. However, you comment about department heads is right on the money.

4/28/2008 3:28:23 PM

Quote :

"Well then fill them out. It doesn't take that long."

soon as they stop spamming me.
i've got other things to do and more important e-mails to sort through.

4/28/2008 8:01:02 PM

FWIW cuz i know what's coming: I know that evaluations are valuable, and I didn't really mind doing them especially when we did them in class for five minutes. My point is just how annoying the e-mails really are, between classeval and basically every one of our instructors.

4/29/2008 12:07:42 AM

^ The instructors get spammed even worse. I got 2 emails a day for a week asking me to pimp evaluations to my students.

5/2/2008 2:23:47 PM

FYI: Class Evaluation were released to instructors today.

I was looking at my written comments. The lab I taught was at 8:00 am. I'm not a morning person and at 8:00 am I'm usually somewhat grumpy. It seem all my students picked up on this and my written comments are pretty brutal. They're not all bad though... most, but not all.

The numbers that you give to rate different things are pretty useless. For instance, that fact that I got a mean score of 3.59 with a standard deviation of 1.18 for stating the course outcomes/objectives doesn't really give me any idea on how to improve my teaching. The written comments are what's most effective. I wish the evaluation forms asked what was and was not most and least effective about the instructor and/or the course.

5/12/2008 8:23:30 AM

^you could do like some teachers and periodically give your own surveys a couple times throughout the semester.

5/12/2008 11:12:54 AM

I got my evaluations as well. 4's all around and everybody hates the class but liked the way I taught it.

5/12/2008 4:32:08 PM

^ Sounds like you're much more popular that I am.

5/12/2008 4:39:37 PM

awww my E115 students <3 me.

5/12/2008 4:49:56 PM

not to sound crude but they probably just want to hit it...i mean sure they think you are nice, but they probably just want to hit it

5/12/2008 5:32:56 PM

clearly, I mean there's no reason what so ever to assume she would be good. Because you find her attractive automatically means she sucks and only got those good reviews because she was attractive.

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5/12/2008 5:59:00 PM

5/12/2008 6:13:06 PM

just saying man, it's E115. Can anyone really be that bad?

5/12/2008 6:36:30 PM

^Yes, they can. There are some TERRIBLE instructors who just read off the damn online textbook. I'm wondering why they get paid. We're in college, and yes the students who take it are usually freshmen, but BY GOD they should know how to read.

5/12/2008 7:33:11 PM

I know I'm just saying, it's not Nuclear Engineering, it's easier to teach than most other classes.

5/12/2008 9:59:59 PM

she brought them cookies, etc. I wish my E115 instructor had brought me food instead of making me bang my head on the desk.

5/12/2008 10:04:30 PM