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Paper, like the Hubble Space Telescope and the Northern Spotted Owl, will soon become history. Harvard is following suit. In a dramatic overhaul of the existing system, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) has shifted away from traditional paper-and-pencil evaluations to entirely online forms, to be joined in 2006 by an exclusively online CUE Guide. But while the online system instituted this semester holds many potential advantages, it could also exacerbate problems with participation and statistical accuracy. Such issues should be addressed now before they have far-ranging effects...
...Online CUE evaluations promise significant logistical improvements to the system. An electronic system will save trees and tabulation time. The new system will also be far more flexible and open to reform. Already, this flexibility is being exploited to rework the format of the evaluations, allowing students to rate classes overall first before they evaluate secondary areas like difficulty and homework. We hope that increased flexibility will also lead to at least one other format change. Currently, the scale used to judge professors and Teaching Fellows ranges from 1-5, a far too limited span considering that students rarely give...
...effect of bringing CUE evaluations into the information age is not so cut-and-dried vis-à-vis student participation, however. Critics of the move have pointed out that putting surveys online almost always reduces sample sizes. The CUE is right to take this as a challenge to make certain that all students—even those mired in academic apathy—are inspired to participate in the surveys...
...thing is for certain, at least (cue Bubba Sparxxx). One way or another, I will have deliverance...
...CUE guide, a published summary of CUE evaluation responses, will be distributed in hard copy for the last time next fall. Beginning in 2006, the guide will move to an exclusively electronic format...