I am Teacher, hear me roar
At the end of each semester, students can fill out an optional evaluation of their professors. From 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest), they rate the professor’s effectiveness in teaching, preparation for class, fairness, and approachability, among other things.
I received last semester’s printout of this information, as well as some other interesting statistical data that I will disseminate below.
65.1% - the number of my students who completed the evaluation. A pretty good showing.
4.354/5.0 – my average rating from all my students. An excellent score of which I am very proud of. The average rating for professors in our department was 2.945.
67/69 – my “strictness” ranking out of all professors in our department. Based on the number of A’s, B’s, C’s, D’s, and F’s a teacher gives to students, 1/69 is the most generous in giving good grades while 69/69 means you gave the least A’s and the most F’s. I’m 67/69, the third strictest teacher in our department!!!!
454/477 – my “strictness” ranking out of all professors in the entire school. Damn! I’m one badass @&%(*$!
I really couldn’t stop laughing at the numbers when I saw them. I mean, I couldn’t possibly be that strict, right? I just followed university policy and graded on a standard C+ bell curve. How can I be ranked that high? Err, low? Maybe I am starting to get a rep around here…But I guess the ranking doesn’t matter. I mean, if I still get such a high rating from my students, I guess they like me even though I fail them. It’s like I hand a student an F and he says, “Thank you sir! May I have another!”
While we’re on the subject of my austerity, a student of mine just disclosed to me some underworld utterings of one of my current classes. It went along the lines of: “Professor Cory is so strict! It’s the last class of the day…why doesn’t he ever let us out early? Just once? And why does he give so much homework? Argh, he’s so strict!”
At the beginning of the school year, our head of academic affairs stated that although students complain about a teacher’s strictness, they usually like it. Or at least respect it. Many times they rate a teacher poorly if the teacher is a pushover. So, in other words, they like getting slapped around. That’s good. ‘Cause I like doing the slapping. ^^
I received last semester’s printout of this information, as well as some other interesting statistical data that I will disseminate below.
65.1% - the number of my students who completed the evaluation. A pretty good showing.
4.354/5.0 – my average rating from all my students. An excellent score of which I am very proud of. The average rating for professors in our department was 2.945.
67/69 – my “strictness” ranking out of all professors in our department. Based on the number of A’s, B’s, C’s, D’s, and F’s a teacher gives to students, 1/69 is the most generous in giving good grades while 69/69 means you gave the least A’s and the most F’s. I’m 67/69, the third strictest teacher in our department!!!!
454/477 – my “strictness” ranking out of all professors in the entire school. Damn! I’m one badass @&%(*$!
I really couldn’t stop laughing at the numbers when I saw them. I mean, I couldn’t possibly be that strict, right? I just followed university policy and graded on a standard C+ bell curve. How can I be ranked that high? Err, low? Maybe I am starting to get a rep around here…But I guess the ranking doesn’t matter. I mean, if I still get such a high rating from my students, I guess they like me even though I fail them. It’s like I hand a student an F and he says, “Thank you sir! May I have another!”
While we’re on the subject of my austerity, a student of mine just disclosed to me some underworld utterings of one of my current classes. It went along the lines of: “Professor Cory is so strict! It’s the last class of the day…why doesn’t he ever let us out early? Just once? And why does he give so much homework? Argh, he’s so strict!”
At the beginning of the school year, our head of academic affairs stated that although students complain about a teacher’s strictness, they usually like it. Or at least respect it. Many times they rate a teacher poorly if the teacher is a pushover. So, in other words, they like getting slapped around. That’s good. ‘Cause I like doing the slapping. ^^
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Beneath that laid-back exterior lies a hard-nosed, kick-you-in-the-ass Professor Ohhhhhh!
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