Student Evaluations

I think every professor has a love/hate relationship with student evaluations.  Dr. Ernst, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Columbia (an alma mater of mine), has an interesting take on these instruments.


Some sample questions:

If you had to choose clothing to represent how much you cared about this course, which of the following would you wear to class?

• Suit and tie

• Clean shirt

• Dirty shirt

• Sweatpants

• Pajamas

How much did you learn about the instructor's personal life?

• He/she remains an enigma

• Too much

• WAY too much

If you were to find the instructor alone in a local bar, which activity would you expect the instructor to be engaged in?

• weeping silently into a dirty glass of cheap beer

• grading drunk

• reading some liberal piece of trash

• thinking deep thoughts

Students who read this blog are not necessarily encouraged to answer these questions with regard to me.