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Making the Grade

Paul Eng, ABC News, Oct 09, 2002

"Boring lecturer, the leading cause of sleepy-headed attendees to class," reads one review. "Even if you might like math, you won't after this class," reads another. "Many excellent writers have had their self-respect and their GPAs destroyed by this petty man," reads yet a third. These online sites provide ratings of professors by students... and many professors are not happy with the concept. They undermine more formal evaluations. They are unfair and unbalanced. "We have relatively new teachers out of grad school teaching here. One of the fears is that they get stigmatized in some way. They get a couple of bad reviews and their career is over." Maybe. But online rating is here to stay.

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