Talk:Course evaluation

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[edit] One-sidedness of the Article

The current article is pretty one-sided about the validity and benefits of course evaluation. It says nothing about the criticisms many have made against student course evaluations in particular. For anyone who wants to follow this up, the following links might be of interest.

http://www.isu.edu/ctl/facultydev/extras/student-evals.html

http://home.sprynet.com/~owl1/sef.htm

http://faculty.fullerton.edu/senatenews/page2.html

http://chronicle.com/colloquy/98/evaluation/background.htm

http://jbao.atu.edu/Fall2002/mason_edwards_roach.pdf

http://mtprof.msun.edu/Fall1998/TroutArt.html

http://mtprof.msun.edu/Fall1995/platt.html

http://www.cra.org/CRN/articles/may03/fich.html

http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2000/JA/Feat/trou.htm

http://www.tes.co.uk/search/story/?story_id=2142732

http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/AssessTheRem1.pdf

See this too: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/01/29/evaluate TruthPolice (talk) 20:48, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

And this: http://www.ctu.edu.vn/centers/cfl/teaching/ebooks/26.pdf TruthPolice (talk) 15:13, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

I've added a Criticism section to the article, actually using some of the sources you mention. Hopefully this "rounds" the article out a little better. Poluphemos (talk) 02:39, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with Course evaluations

Is there anyone opposed to merging this article with Course evaluations and turning one into a redirect to the other? NBS525 13:12, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm for merging the (practically identical) two into "Course evaluation," to have a parallel naming structure with other evaluation articles. Rfrisbie^talk 18:30, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

After a month without further comment, I will perform the proposed merger. As far as I can tell from Category:Evaluation, the name seems fine in the singular. Jlittlet 19:34, 14 September 2006 (UTC)