Re: Good advice re: "Rate my Professor"
"DANIEL P. Tompkins" <[email protected]>
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Oh dear. I’ll try to learn more. Dan Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 15, 2019, at 8:48 PM, d lemieur <[email protected]> wrote: > > Apparently this is not true. I wrote to Rate My Professor after reading > this post and was told by them that they do NOT remove profiles upon > request. > > D. Lemieur > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 at 15:33, DANIEL P. Tompkins <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Here's a useful Tweet from a sociologist in Calgary. If I were still >> teaching, I'd act at once, since the "Rate my..." site prioritizes extreme >> positions ("I love," "I hate") and is really useless analytically. I doubt >> that any serious decision-makers use it, but who knows? And in general, >> the web is too often used by people just lookin' for dirt... >> >> Naomi Lightman >> >> >> @naomilightman >> Jan 11 >> More >> Academic friends: did you know you can email #ratemyprofessor and ask them >> to remove your profile? And they do so almost immediatly. It really feels >> extremely freeing for a variety of reasons. #AcademicTwitter >> >> I have not read the substantial number of critiques of student evaluations >> that appear now to be available. In the '90s - '00s we certainly noticed >> problems with them. Research at the time seemed to show that the "teacher >> is well organized" question provdided a better measure of student learning >> than other questions, but now there's more evidence of inherent gender bias >> etc. Fascinating questions though no longer part of my life! >> >> Best, >> >> Dan >>