Teachers/Professors: Your best (or worst) class evaluation comments?
 

Just wondering if anyone had any funny stories about stuff students wrote about you in your end of term evaluation forms? I have taught at two different universities, and while 90% of the feedback is predictable and mundane, every once in awhile, there is a gem.

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Surely you must start the ball rolling if you post one of these. :)

I as a student just put down how I feel about the professor, every year its the same 20 question thing at the end of every semester. I've only had 2 professors out of the 25+ or so that got downright bad reports from me.

wow now you really got me curious.. Share your gem with us first. =P

An acquantance of mine in English class decided instead of using one of our tests to improve his English grade, he professed his love for our teacher (she was attractive).

Needless to say she freaked out, he was expelled, and she transferred schools.

I've had the same professor for chemistry two semesters running, and she was telling us the different suggestions she received after last semester. Someone told her to "lose the accent", which was odd because I had not noticed an accent at all until that point. Now I notice she says words like "bag" funny and it bothers me. But it could be because this semester isn't just highschool chemistry repeated and actual new material and I am forced to pay attention rather than leave in the middle of lectures to go out to lunch.

I went off on my evaluation for my crim teacher this term, it's a first year course, and on the first assignment of the term NOT ONE STUDENT out of his two 30+ student classes received higher than a C+. And to top it off he told us that while he was marking them his 10 year old daughter read through some and asked why people in college write such terrible papers. Totally made for a pretty awful semester, even though I got above 90's on the exams, because he's so hard marking the written work I'll be lucky to squeak a C+ :\

I took a legal 200 class last quarter, at the end of the quarter, when asked to comment. I put "Instructor speaks as though he was speaking at an auction and not to a class." He must have recgonized my hand writting even though it was anonymous 'cause I sure pay for it with the grade... :( and :lol:

At the end of the first course I taught at this school I handed out the evaluation forms with no small degree of trepidation. Grande Ecole students are a breed apart, and not only in terms of raw ambition. There's always a sense with these young ladies and gentlemen that their time is money. They've paid quite a lot, and as consumers they're really quite demanding.

Anyway, they were good to me:) All, that is, except for one particular student. Had I stimulated his intellectual curiosity? Um, no. His true feelings about the last eighteen hours spent in one another's company were summed up pretty nicely in the 'add your comments here' section of the form.

'The only sound was the buzzing of flies.'

Merci, mon grand:D

I'm not a teacher or a professor...but I'm a student and I fill out evaluation forms for each of my classes every semester. My favourite comment that I have left goes something like this:
"Professor H has no regard for personal space, and makes students uncomfortable with his occasional lewd comments. He also has a disregard for personal hygiene and appearance"

This was for my English 105 professor, who was the quintessential "Dirty Old Man"

Ok, the best one I ever saw was for a fellow grad student of mine. We had to be instructors for students working in the scene shop in the theatre department. Most students HATED doing crew, so the comments were generally not about us specifically, but about crew in general.

The best response on the feedback forms of all time was just 3 words:

"Mitigate the ennui"

That, my friends, is genius.

Man, I have had some bad teachers in my years at the University, and I am always brutally honest with all my evaluations at the end of the semester. That being said, there have certainly been a few young teachers that have probably left the field after the verbal (written) beratement I gave them. On the other hand, I make it a point to tell a good teacher how much I enjoyed their class and various other ego-stoking remarks.

About half of my students hate me, and I have fun with it. I don't like teaching students who have no skill or interest in what they're doing (most of them). So I've had lots of negative comments...

Students commonly say that I require them to think too much (oh no!), I don't give out all the homework answers in class like some of their friends get (!!), and require them to know too much math (high school level calculus in college physics).

I even had one girl get her mother to call up to complain about me because, among other things, I gave her a zero on an extra credit assignment she copied off of someone else (it was wrong too). Yes, this is college.

And this is why I don't enjoy teaching people who aren't there to learn.

As a student I feel it is important to accurately write down how well they do. I have only given 3 teachers in High School a bad report (1 ended up fired) and in college, so far I haven't given any BAD reports but moderates. Their heart is in the right place, but they just can't teach...