Word: whitla
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Until recently, Whitla's office used results of the CUE survey to status the performance of graduate student teaching follows. Section leaders scoring below a 3.0 on the CUE ratings were routinely removed from teaching positions or "invited" to brush up their teaching skills at the Harvard-Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning, Whitla says...
That policy resulted in the reassignment of "a small number" of graduate students whose instruction fell below par, Whitla adds. "Fortunately, we land the CUE to help bring them to our attention," he notes...
...putting the Guide in its proper perspective doesn't necessarily mean prohibiting its use altogether, says Whitla. "It's a very useful source of information. It's one of the things that should go into consideration...
...Whitla adds that he does not oppose Ozment's decision to suspend Harvard's use of the guide to evaluate teaching fellows...
While a random lottery poses many problems satisfaction with the present system continues to rise. The Whitla Verba survey from the spring of 1983 showed that on a scale of 1 to 5 I representing high satisfaction with the present system, students average 'a 1.9 in 1983 compared with a 3.3 1973. In 1994 69 percent of Harvard freshmen received their top choice House while 91 percent of freshmen were assigned to one of their three choices. In the words or one eminent and farsighted Master "if it ain't broken...