Trivia: Jack Webb was offered this role but turned it down as he did not want to satirize his no nonsense image.
Posted on 11/28/2018 7:06:58 AM PST by C19fan
A University of California, Berkeley professor suggested scrapping end-of-semester student evaluations for hiring, promotion, and tenure decisions after claiming that the grades and evaluations are biased against female instructors and people of color.
“Over the next few weeks, students will get the chance to evaluate their professors and TAs. They’re going to get it wrong,” UC Berkeley history professor Brian DeLaytweeted on Sunday. “They’ll be harder on women and people of color than on white men. Tenured white male faculty, in particular, should help their students understand this.”
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My workplace, as with every one, has an annual employee review process. The whole process is a farce as the results are evaluated and changed to make sure certain special groups score the same results as everyone else.
Oops, even at Berkeley.
Yeah, that’ll work. Deny reality and hide in your pretend world.
Trivia: Jack Webb was offered this role but turned it down as he did not want to satirize his no nonsense image.
Yep, can’t have results that don’t conform with the narrative.
In reality, most “higher education” is nothing more than an indoctrination center and a money laundering process with the government.
In short, “Higher Education” is a racket...a ponzie scheme. Four years and thousands of dollars later, “graduates” have nothing of value to show for the time spent.
So the sucky affirmative action hires get lousy evaluations? Who’d have guessed? But, hey, no problem. Just abolish evaluations. Problem solved!
Test after test, exam after exam, all show the same thing. Chinese/Japanese, then Whitebread Whitey, then Hispanics, then Blacks.
Given the weight of all these exams, a rational person would take a look at them and see, notice, and admit what they are proving.
Professor DeLay admits that his teaching has improved because he learned from evaluations that were made about his classes. But all the evaluations should be scrapped because they are biased. Huh? Which is it, professor? Oh, ok, your bias overrules empiricism and logic.
You’re a fool.
Maybe it’s because overall, white male professors didn’t have the benefit of being an Affirmative Action hire.
At Berkeley? My guess would be that those indoctrinated students would distort the evaluations in favor of female instructors and "people of color".
But wait, there's more! Are they allowed to refer to someone as "female" at Berkeley?
30 years ago when the University of Dayton first introduced student evals as a key to tenure and promotion, I warned them then it was a terrible idea.
It’s like you evaluating your doctor immediately after surgery, without knowing if the surgery was a success or not. The students simply lack proper information to do an analysis.
I always scored very high, one semester getting a 3.9 out of a 4.0. But I never thought student evals were meaningful.
Now they are coming back to bite the libs in the butt.
LOL - the 'speaking truth to power' thing is really going to bite bogus 'professors' who got their positions based on skin color and squish between their legs...
Dumb liberals, all they need to do is have a different set of questions for the different groups. Just like pollster questions. Tailor the question to the answer you want. Sometimes liberals can’t even follow their own rule book.
Grade inflation began about the same time as student evaluations began to be used. Maybe there is a connection.
“It’s like you evaluating your doctor immediately after surgery, without knowing if the surgery was a success or not. The students simply lack proper information to do an analysis.”
Back when I was in Jr High we were asked to evaluate our teachers. I gave one teacher a scathing evaluation. I hated the guy.
About the time of my 50th birthday I realised that teacher I so hated was actually the best teacher I EVER had.
Practical experience and time had given me the wisdom to properly evaluate my teachers.
Yes, sometimes we really dislike exceptionally hard teachers, though my very best two teachers were the two in college I could NOT get an A from to save my life.
I went to a Catholic high school. For Geometry, to fill-in for a year, the admin. brought in a retired, very old religious brother who probably earned his collar teaching kids in the 1920s. He was very rigid, had a clear process and system for teaching geometry. His teaching style, I thought at the time, was a window to the past, and very unusual by the early 90s. But If you followed his methods, you learned geometry.
Of course, a few of the kids (who weren't good students anyway) told their mommies things like "he doesn't let us ask questions" or "his system is old-fashioned and stupid" and a few activist mothers got this man fired.
I still learned geometry, and of course, the kids who complained still wound up doing poorly.
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