Word: cues
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...initial problem is basic. As I scope potential courses for the new semester, the first thing that strikes me when looking at the CUE Guide is the absence of the survey for the course I am thinking about taking. No doubt, everyone who takes a seminar or tutorial experiences this same problem...
Though the CUE Guide actually publishes the survey results of some seminars, my criticism extends well beyond the tutorial system. Too often it seems to me, departmental courses have no review, or if they have the survey tables, they have no written write...
...sure, this is not always the fault of the CUE Guide staff. Indeed, the introduction to the book clearly states that the heads of each undergraduate course are offered the opportunity to be evaluated: "Instructors are not required to participate in the evaluation process; if a course does not appear in the Guide we were most likely unable to obtain the instructor's permission." What is up with that? Teaching undergraduates at the world's best university is a privilege, one that should be conditional upon the assent given to evaluation...
...instructors and the University the only guilty parties? Perhaps not. The editors of the CUE Guide absolve themselves pre-emptively for not choosing which courses are evaluated and printed. In boldface type they write, "This decision is entirely in the hands of the instructors." But this seems impossible. Indeed, they state further that for courses with enrollments of less than 15 students, there are no writeups, just survey tables. Is it possible that in such courses, students unanimously elected not to fill out the second page of the CUE Guide sheets...
Clearly, some choices on the part of the CUE Guide staff appear to exist. One might similarly ask, "Where on earth do all those Expos evaluations...