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In <a31801wv86X.00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> ikluft@uts.amdahl.com (Ian Kluft) writes:

>Professor evaluations are a good idea.  The problem is that your chapter may be
>too close to the action not to be affected by the results.

My experience suggests that objective evaluations (printing means and
deviations from student evaluations using numbers), and allowing faculty
to review the form (not approve, review), goes a long way to keeping folks
happy.  If you allow students to write comments (which are very helpful to
instructors), don't print them.  Just print the numbers.  Also, make copies
of all own forms available to the professors after the end of the term.

Another trick I've seen is to allow professors to decide if they want to
be evaluated if their course isn't one of the required ones for the
degree.  (Actually, Harvard lets any professor opt out for any course,
but there's some polite pressure to permit evaluation of major courses).

Craig