Teacher Evaluation Form

Your teacher is being evaluated. The Dean of the college and others in the administration want to decide whether he (she) should be given a merit raise or whether he (she) should be replaced by a new teacher. We would like your help. Although many factors will be taken into account in the final decision, we want your input on one of these. We want to know whether, in relation to other similar teachers, your teacher has caused you to learn more or less.

We recognize that learning can occur in a variety of ways. At one extreme, the teacher's recommendations, assignments or requirements may cause a great deal of learning to occur even though his (her) lectures or help sessions are insignificant. At the other extreme, a teacher may present entertaining lectures in the classroom, but because the assignments or requirements are easy, he (she) may cause only a little learning to occur. Please pay attention to all of the ways that a teacher may have caused you to learn.

It is natural for students to favor teachers who have treated them well, regardless of the amount of learning that has occurred. Unfortunately, it is also natural for students to disfavor teachers who they believe have treated them badly or unfairly. Please recognize that the results of this evaluation are important for the future academic reputation of the college. If you rate a teacher highly merely because he (she) has given you easy assignments, given you a high grade, or done you a favor we will not be able to make an adequate assessment of his (her) contribution to learning. We may make the mistake of rewarding a "bad" teacher and punishing a "good" one. The same is true if you rate the teacher low because you do not like him (her). This evaluation is not a popularity contest.

In making your evaluation, we hope that you will take account of the fact that some courses are naturally more interesting or appealing than others. This may be because of the subject matter (e.g., statistics vs. contemporary issues). We hope that you will try to compare the learning caused by your teacher with the learning caused by other teachers in similar courses.

Taking these things into account, we would like you to compare this instructor with others you have had and are having. As a starting point, we would like you to give him (her) a ranking between 1 and 9. We assume that the typical, or average, AUS teacher deserves a ranking of 5. So if you think that your teacher is worse than average in causing you to learn, you should assign a number below 5. If he (she) is better than average, you should assign a number above 5. The teacher who has caused you to learn the most would be assigned a 9 and the teacher who has caused you to learn the least would be assigned a 1.

Please do not treat this task casually. Give it some thought because your answer may effect the education of students at AUS for years to come. Besides this, it will effect the college's academic reputation. We are sure that you realize how important these factors are.

Caused the Least Learning Caused the Most Learning

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Now that you have given your teacher a numerical ranking, we would like to know your reasoning. Please tell below which characteristics of the teacher led you to choose the number you did.

Since your comments will also be helpful to your teacher, we would like him (her) to see them. If you prefer that he (she) not read them please indicate this to us and we shall omit your comments from the set we return to him (her).

If you do not want your teacher to see your remarks, please write no.

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