In light of Ed’s brilliant piece about having his students evaluate his performance midway through the semester, the grey lady of newspapers published a whole piece on the subject of professorial assessment. It’s on page A-18 of today’s paper. The idea of both Ed’s and the New York Times’ pieces is that we spend a lot of time assessing our students but hardly ever bother to ask the students how we’re doing. And, both suggest, it’s not such a bad idea to ask.
Anyone else do this? How?