A
Collection Of Student Evaluations
Please,
note; this is a copy of an old
web-page and the data has not been updated for years, but the links to the
copies of my student evaluations are current (please, leave a comment if you
find a broken link).
The full 100 % description of my professional experience and achievements is here.
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I’m
an open society proponent.
I
firmly believe that every teacher/instructor/faculty should teach under an
impression that everyone can see live
what is happening in his or her classroom (that is why I support the “Open Classroom”
Initiative). I also believe that every teacher should do what I do
on this page, i.e. make his or her evaluation public (tried to start such a
club but so far failed 😥, maybe the club will be more successful - posting job interviews, here is mine).
Nowadays,
everyone can go to http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ and read what
students think about their professors.
According
to the website, currently (September 1st, 2015) out of hundreds of my former
students only 24 left some feedback (although the page shows only 20 –
something is wrong with the way the site operates):
If
you study evaluations students give to their professors, you find that some
professors consistently get low scores, some professors consistently get high
scores, but some professors (including me) consistently get opposite scores.
That is why I am always open to my students about my evaluations (an example is in this video
).
Unfortunately,
due to technical issues the sound is not very good, so below is a partial
transcript of the soundtrack.
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These
are the actual quotes from some evaluations from the past.
“Good
pace”. “Too fast”.
“Funny”.
“Boring”.
I
do not know who wrote it, it was anonymous, but those are actual quotes.
…
“You
can tell he wants his students to understand and do well”.
“Never
felt like he cared for his students”.
Two
people was watching the same person saying same words, doing same things, and
had absolute opposite perception of that.
What
does it tell us?
…
The
lesson is, that for some of you I am a good match, and for some – not.
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This link https://youtu.be/FOwIowGKTKk
points at the video of the first lecture of a semester, where I spend
first part of the lecture on explaining to students my approach to
teaching and grading.
I always tell students, there are no ideal teachers, and there is no ideal way of learning or teaching. Different people learn differently; different teachers teach differently, and – like you may not like a movie or a dish your friends like – you also may not like an instructor other people find likable. But if, anyway, you are interested in what my BU students had recently said about me, click here for example form 2012, click here (2013) or here (2014); this and this is the statistics from another university where I also teach a class.
I always tell students, there are no ideal teachers, and there is no ideal way of learning or teaching. Different people learn differently; different teachers teach differently, and – like you may not like a movie or a dish your friends like – you also may not like an instructor other people find likable. But if, anyway, you are interested in what my BU students had recently said about me, click here for example form 2012, click here (2013) or here (2014); this and this is the statistics from another university where I also teach a class.
I
have not been keeping the files of all my evaluations, but I keep adding the
one I have.
Some
of the latest evaluations are here (BU), then here (BU),
and here;
here (BU), and here (BU_PhyII).
End of a spring semester evaluation; when I
compare my data with the average over the college, it makes me be more
confident in the way I teach.
Summer I,
2019, PY106 student evaluations
Summer I,2020, PY105 student evaluations
Summer I,2020, PY106 student evaluations
Summer I,2020, PY105 student evaluations
Summer I,2020, PY106 student evaluations
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