Comments on: Opinion surveys closer to moving online http://www.cm-life.com/2010/02/03/opinion-surveys-closer-to-moving-online/ Your 24-hour news source for Central Michigan University Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mossdale http://www.cm-life.com/2010/02/03/opinion-surveys-closer-to-moving-online/comment-page-1/#comment-10664 mossdale Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:14:47 +0000 http://www.cm-life.com/?p=51536#comment-10664 If students don't want to use this information (SOS scores and class GPAs) to shop around for easy A's, what do they want it for? I say, let them go ahead and have the scores. I don't want students who are looking for an easy A in my courses anyway. This will weed those students out of my classes....good! Research has shown that SOS scores do not provide useful information about a person's teaching skills. Students will learn that if they employ the information to find easy classes, easy teachers etc. So...let them go ahead and try it. If students don’t want to use this information (SOS scores and class GPAs) to shop around for easy A’s, what do they want it for? I say, let them go ahead and have the scores. I don’t want students who are looking for an easy A in my courses anyway. This will weed those students out of my classes….good!

Research has shown that SOS scores do not provide useful information about a person’s teaching skills. Students will learn that if they employ the information to find easy classes, easy teachers etc. So…let them go ahead and try it.

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