Ruth and Claire talk about the trauma of student evaluations. Claire shares that having in-class time for doing the evaluations really improves the participation numbers. She also talks to students about why the evaluations matter. Ruth has used a service on campus for mid semester evaluations which provides an opportunity for airing grievances that don’t later show up in evaluations. Both Claire and Ruth are working on developing survival techniques when reading them!

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