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%TEACHING STUDENTS HOW TO EVALUATE 801119
Faculty members often contend that their students do
not know how to properly evaluate faculty teaching. If
this is true, there is a possible remedy. Good faculty
members might teach students how to to evaluate faculty
teaching. It should be possible to teach students how to
tell the difference between helpful and unhelpful faculty
members. Yet, perhaps there are people who contend that
nobody can tell the difference between qualities of
teaching; or perhaps they may contend that even if some
people can tell the difference, there is no teacher so
able as to teach students how to tell the difference. It
may be that there is a correlation between these beliefs
and personal self interest on the part of those holding
these beliefs.
The intrusion of persons who are not members of a
class into a class for the purpose of making a formal
evaluation of a teacher's effectiveness is an intrusion
which changes that which is to be evaluated. Only those
persons who are normally present during teaching are in an
unbiased position to evaluate the effectiveness of
teaching. In terms of the politics of the situation, only
those whose welfare is at stake are in the proper position
to decide whether or not they are properly being served.
Paternalistic evaluations on their behalf should be
suspect---no matter how benevolent the paternalistic
authority/expert.
The problem with student evaluations is that students
may not have internalized the same values and may not be
operating in terms of the same value system as the
teachers who are to be subjected to evaluation. The
teachers may not have been successful in teaching values
and a system of enforcing those values. Teachers do not
want to be subjected to evaluations in terms of students'
values which may be in conflict with their own values.
Thus teachers tend to be suspicious of students' technical
competence to evaluate teaching---to cover teachers'
suspicions about students' values.
Teachers are in the business of selling instructional
services. They need to respect the preferences of their
potential customers if they want to sell their ideas and
values effectively.
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