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Forget the CUE guide, the Derek Bok Center and all the attempts of late to transform socially stunted graduate students into Socratic-quality teachers. In the past three years, as I have sat through many poorly-taught sections, I have let my eyes wander, betting that most of my fellow classmates could do a much better job reviewing lecture concepts, explaining grading policies and creating paper topics...
Besides the fact that not all classes fill out CUE evaluations, responses are counted only when at least seven evaluations are returned...
While it may seem that everyone and their roommate complains about "bad" TFs, the reality is that very few TFs receive the minimum CUE guide score of 3.0. Last semester, 37 TFs , out of over 1000, received letters advising them to seek help with their teaching...
This number is slightly higher than previous years, according to Wilkinson because the expected standards of teaching were raised this year. Previously, the minimum score for TFs was 2.8, and because fewer and fewer people were getting such low scores, the CUE decided to up the ante...
According to Aladjem, it is not usually laziness or negligence on the part of the TF leads to low CUE guide scores. Rather, he says, it is a need to "refocus and microadjust" teaching styles or it may merely the imperfection of the evaluation system...