The Value of Evaluating

colleagues have never experienced an academic environment free of student evaluations. To tell them of those halcyon days when we still debated not the how but the whether of evaluation forms is to speak to them of a bygone age. Like most American colleges, the institution where I teach introduced evaluation forms in the era following 1968.1 At several stages the format changed from short to long, long to short, from numerical to narrative, and finally to a combination of both.