[Englecturers] FW: Spring Semester Registration

[sbaringer at hughes.net]

Pickaprof has actual quantitative data about grade distributions, which is making more people nervous.  You have to subscribe for $10 a year to get access to the grade histories.  I'm guessing that in the long run, the publication of the grade data is more likely to result in grade deflation than inflation, as the worst inflating offenders (many of them tenured) become exposed to peers and administrators outside the direct chain of command.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gray Scott 
  To: Paul Beehler ; english lecturers 
  Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 9:10 PM
  Subject: Re: [Englecturers] FW: Spring Semester Registration


  Hello all,

  I should probably note that most students have started switching away from RateMyProfessors -- it's suffering from a lack of activity, which may be why this ad breaks from the site's history of "we're not about easy A's" attitude. 

  These days, your students are more likely to be using MySpace, which has its own professor rating system. It is far more active than the RateMy site. 

  - Gray
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Paul Beehler 
    To: english lecturers 
    Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 8:58 PM
    Subject: [Englecturers] FW: Spring Semester Registration


    I know I'm  becoming old and crotchety, but is this free speech or corruption of the field?  I know -- an either/or fallacy.

    best,

    Paul.






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