Law in Contemporary Society

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GradingProfessors 9 - 15 Feb 2010 - Main.RobLaser
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a.k.a. Grading Professors So WE Get Better Feedback

Students grade professors through course evaluation forms. Maybe we can use these forms to get better feedback from our professors. (The irony that the feedback we give them is already way more instructive than the feedback we receive is not lost on me.) Anyway, through the evaluation forms we give feedback on many different aspects of the professor's performance, but we don't give feedback on how good their feedback to us is. Maybe if we successfully lobby for a "rate your professor's feedback" box on the evaluation forms, we can begin to establish feedback as an important part of a professor's job.

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 I'll hold off anything substantive for now, but one thought popped into my head which I think needs to be answered-- is this the kind of feedback we're looking for? What we did right or wrong on a test? Isn't that feedback only useful for taking other tests, which is not what we'll be doing once we leave school? It seems to me the feedback we want should be related to how to be a lawyer, not how to take a law school test. That's why I think some more fundamental changes are needed, and also why I find it kind of perplexing how many law school professors have never actually been lawyers.
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>		[I have set up a new topic regarding Rory's comment about our professors often never having practiced.] http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/twiki/bin/view/LawContempSoc/LawProfessorsWhoNeverPracticed

I think Rory makes good points about the feedback. As for the sit in idea, it was more about trying to alert the faculty to exactly how serious a problem we feel this is. It was not intended as an adversarial attack, but more of a wake up call that may not be communicated simply from reading the evaluations. A more dramatic, face to face statement may be more effective.

I agree with Rory that more fundamental changes need to take place. I would really like law school to look extremely different from the shape it takes right now. However, I would be behind efforts to get more feedback in the current system as I feel it would provide immediate, positive results while we continue to work towards larger goals.

That being said, I echo Alex's request for anyone to post any information they have on the process required to institute evaluation of feedback.

-- RobLaser - 15 Feb 2010

 
 
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