Report on Teaching Evaluations

During the academic years 1994/5 -- 1995/6 the Department of Mathematics used "normative" teaching evaluations as an "experiment". The results of this experiment are to be found in an (unpublished) article.

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This experiment was terminated at the end of the 1995/1996 academic year. Enough output had been obtained, and some of the conclusions were sufficiently disturbing, to convince the Department that an alternative should be sought. After much discussion it was decided to go with a form containing a very small number of questions each of which required only written responses. As of summer 1999 this form is still in use. The current version is a two sided form with five questions, at least two of which pertain primarily to the level of infrastructure surrounding the course, and blank space in between for written answers.


After a year or so of using the new form here was my opinion.