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March 06, 2006
Evaluation Blackmail (Con't)
Last week, Ken Jones at Northeastern State University (in Oklahoma) and I were talking on the topic of evaluation blackmail. Ken asks his students to provide written comments explaining every mark they give him on his evaluations. Since he's begun doing that, he's noted that his evaluations have been more balanced, more realistic, and far more useful to him. "Marks alone, whether they're high or low, don't tell me anything. If they liked what I did, I'd like to know why. And, if not, I'd like to know that as well."
By the way, Ken is a great fan of Friedman's The World Is Flat and has prepared a learning guide for that text for use in his intro to MIS class. Anyone interested in that project should contact him at: jones013@nsuok.edu.
Posted by DavidK at March 6, 2006 12:04 PM | Permalink