Course evaluations
Course evaluations are useless forms that students are asked to fill out at the end of every semester. You rate the professor, the course content, the TAs, etc., on scales of 1 to 10 or whatever. Then you have the chance to leave some comments. Increasingly course evaluations are moving online, and so students are receiving more and more annoying emails telling them to fill in the forms.
In the past the results of course evaluations have usually either been:
- lost
- left in a corner
- destroyed by flood or fire
- ignored
However, the student councils are now suggesting the results of the evaluations might be made available to students in some marginally useful way. It's likely all we'll end up with is a little bar for each course giving it a score from 1 to 10, or something like that. The vast majority of courses will average out at something between 7.45 and 7.55. So we still won't really have anything useful to go by.
