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2006

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Legal Education

William & Mary Law School

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Observations On The Folly Of Using Student Evaluations Of College Teaching For Faculty Evaluation, Pay, And Retention Decisions And Its Implications For Academic Freedom, William Arthur Wines, Terence J. Lau Oct 2006

Observations On The Folly Of Using Student Evaluations Of College Teaching For Faculty Evaluation, Pay, And Retention Decisions And Its Implications For Academic Freedom, William Arthur Wines, Terence J. Lau

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

Research on student teaching evaluations is vast. An examination of this research demonstrates wide disagreements but also substantial consensus of authority for the proposition that student evaluations should be used only with extreme care, if at all, in making personnel decisions. A number of reasons cause administrators to use teaching evaluations for personnel decisions. The literature, however, is virtually unanimous in its condemnation of norming student evaluations in order to rank classroom performances. Current cases on academic freedom indicate some retrenchment by the Circuits from broader pronouncements in earlier Supreme Court cases. This paper concludes that the use of non-validated …


Classroom Incivilities, Gender, Authenticity And Orthodoxy, And The Limits Of Hard Work: Four Lenses For Interpreting A "Failed" Teaching Experience, Deborah Maranville Apr 2006

Classroom Incivilities, Gender, Authenticity And Orthodoxy, And The Limits Of Hard Work: Four Lenses For Interpreting A "Failed" Teaching Experience, Deborah Maranville

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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