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RateMyProfessors can be a delicate subject for faculty members, who often mistrust and fear it the way business owners mistrust and fear Yelp! ("The food was awesome!" "The food was inedible!" "Awesome!" "Inedible!").
But according to an interesting piece in The Hatchet, the site ranking system seems to produce results that roughly mesh with evaluations conducted the old-fashioned way. Except, of course, for the chili peppers, which are a RateMyProfessors hallmark.
We know that RateMyProfessors has is getting something right, though, because as the Hatchet piece reveals, Jane Shore has perfect scores on the site! By my wholly non-scientific reckoning, this either means that:
1. Jane Shore's students love her.
2. Jane Shore's students feel passionately enough about her teaching to go to RateMyProfessor.
3. All of the above.
If you're an English major, do you use RMP to record your thoughts about English courses? To award chili peppers? Do you trust RMP as a guide to choosing courses from semester to semester?
1 comments:
I, and I think most students, take into account comments on RMP... but only to a certain extent. For the most part, professors have equal amounts of positive and negative comments. The positive are usually from strong students who payed attention in class and utilized their professor, while the negative comments are generally posted by students who didn't take extra efforts in their studies and, therefore, blame the professor. I have no idea how a professor will teach until I'm actually in his class; therefore, I tend to ignore RMP ratings and form my own opinions, instead.
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