While some professors have reservations about the policy regarding student ratings of instruction, students seem to support it, as reporter Michelle Hampson found when she canvassed the campus for opinion.
Dalhousie Senate approved a policy statement last month for course evaluations, stating that they will be undertaken in all applicable university courses; the questions will be standardized; and the summary results to those common questions is what will be available to students.
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| “I think it would be good but at the same time, everyone has their own opinions and we're used to go into it not knowing anything about the prof, so it’s part of the experience of the class too.” — Holly Baltzer, 19, first-year Nursing | ||
| “As engineers, we don’t get to choose our courses. It will be good for the students who can choose their courses.” — Andrew Sullivan, 23, Engineering | ||
| “Fully support it, 100 per cent. People should not have to take a course where the prof sucks. That’s what makes the class.” — Jonathn Weinberg, 21, fourth-year Environmental Science | ||
| “It’s like rateyourprofessors.com. I think you should know how good a professor is and what other people think of them before you go into the class.” — Tristan Sbrizzi, 23, third-year Environmental Science | ||
| “It’ll be great if you post that because I can see what other students think, so I can compare my thoughts to other students’ thoughts. It’ll be great for the prof. There will be more pressure for them. I mean, if everyone can see, they’ll try to get better evaluations from students.” — Vivian Wang, 21, second-year Commerce | ||
| “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. There’s the rateyourprof dot com — that’s making professor evaluations public and helped me for sure. I think there’s nothing wrong with that at all, as long as there are no names involved." — Carol Zakhary, 23, fourth-year Management | ||
| “It’s good for the student in that when you have elective courses you have the opportunity to give you a better idea of what courses you want to take. I don’t necessarily like simply number values because it doesn’t give you any perspective why they are being rated that way. I like that it creates some accountability for the professors, as well, to know that they are being rated on a grander scale than just their immediate superiors.” — Peter Kennedy, 27, first-year Medicine |
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