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...Most importantly, participation in the CUE guide needs to be complete if the results are to be most meaningful. From the faculty side, that means requiring professors to submit themselves to evaluation. As far as student participation is concerned, a change in incentives should produce a higher rate of involvement. Specifically, the reward for filling out CUE evaluations should not be relief from saccharine e-mail reminders, or even extra funding for one’s House or Yard, but rather access to CUE results the following year. It’s a simple quid pro quo: spend the twenty...
...There are two obvious problems with this model for improving participation. The first is a free rider problem; what’s to prevent me, a delinquent student, from skipping out on my CUE evaluations, only to use my roommates’ access later? One hopes, however, that there will be enough of a benefit in avoiding the inconvenience of using a roommate’s computer every time one wants to see the CUE survey to induce students to fill out the online forms...
...second issue is that this model would require eliminating the printed version of the CUE guide, presently distributed to every suite at the beginning of the year. (Loss of CUE privileges becomes a fairly meaningless deterrent if every student gets a paper copy in their room, no matter what.) This will, admittedly, inconvenience any student who prefers the printed guide over the online equivalent. We should be prepared to leave those students’ preferences unsatisfied, however; with the online version of the CUE now tied in so thoroughly to the online course catalogue, the paper version?...
...Beyond trying to increase participation in the CUE, the results of the evaluations should be more faithfully presented to give undergraduates a better sense of the reviews their would-be teachers received. There are two reasons for this. First, when we, as undergraduates, see our grades inflated by our instructors, we are often happy to return the favor. On those occasions, the scores (4.1 out of 5) and comments (“Boring.” “Average.” “Totally uninspiring.”) that teachers receive are out of sync...
...that the online CUE evaluations process can best be harnessed to improve immediately teaching quality at Harvard has nothing at all to do with the surveys themselves. If every undergraduate is required to complete the evaluations, it should also require them to complete a very basic form of pre-registration for the courses that they intend to take the following semester. This would by no means be a binding declaration, but rather a formal expression of interest in the group of courses that one is contemplating for the next term, however many courses that...