Word: cues
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long been my (not entirely popular) theory that grade inflation and student discontent with the quality of sections taught by graduate teaching fellows are related phenomena. As I have already stated in print, Harvard's tenured faculty have allowed a situation to develop in which the CUE system has become a kind of electronic overseer of what once was, presumably, a proud system of rigorous academic evaluation by highly qualified professionals. Now teaching fellows grade students who, in turn, grade them. In too many cases, no professor ever interrupts the flow of this mutually destructive cycle, the result of which...
...really mixed," he says. "There are some that have low CUE ratings...
...approximately 30 teaching fellows who rank below a 2.8 on the CUE scale, the majority are American born, he says, and foreign born graduate students are not on that list disproportionately to their numbers in the ranks of teaching fellows...
Under the current system of voluntary evaluation, teaching fellows who are given poor marks on CUE questionnaires receive letters from Buell urging them to find advice on teaching, he said...
Currently, because CUE reviews are optional, teaching fellows who receive poor reviews for a course can teach other classes in the future and bypass further CUE reviews. Professors decide whether their courses will have CUE evaluations...