🚀 go-pugleaf

Good point, Jeff.  I, too, have difficulty providing closure in many
topic areas.  It's an odd thing to have to do since those topic areas
are natureally not closed.  Hmmm...

But on the evaluation questions.  (I promised myself I'd try to stay
off the email for a while, so this will be brief.)  I've often thought
that a good evaluation of a course would be to ask the students about
themselves.  How much work did they do for the class?  Did they find
this course demanded different attention than others?  Did they feel
their knowledge foundation (whatever that is) was enhanced by this.
Did it make them think about new areas in new ways.  Et cetera.  To
ask them about the teacher evaluting the teacher, to ask them about
themselves evaluates how they deal with the college experience.  This
might be even more valuable since I'm not sure they can really judge
teachers any more than to say whether we "do what we say we're gonna
do" sort of thing.

This is only three quarters thought out, but thought I'
d post it as an idea in the making.

--sbg