Anyone ever give their instructor a bad evaluation? Do these things ever effect the instructors?
I don't know if it's common for all schools, but the colleges (2 regular 4 year universities and nursing school) I have been to all do these end of class "anonymous" evaluations on our instructors and the course. This class I'm currently taking I have had the worst, most dangerous clinical instructor ever, and our entire class really poured it out on the evaluation. We all had our little issues. My main one was the way she insisted on holding the needle while I was giving a newborn Vitamin K, which interfered with my having control of the needle and made it impossible to even see where the needle was going into the baby. It was dangerous. Also she would yell through the glass of the newborn nursery windows (while familes were watching) at the students while they were doing the newborn baths and assessments. "You're taking too long!" even though they were doing absolutely nothing wrong and were under the direct supervision of the nursery nurses. We had several family members (one father) complain about the students taking care of the infants after these episodes of hers, because they assumed this crazy lady screaming through the window wearing a white lab coat knew what she was talking about (she didn't).
I'm just wondering if they will even be read. Also sort of wondering if she will know who wrote what, though I suspect she will. I have distictive handwriting.
our department types them up after we submit them. However, they don't dispose of the originals and the instructor can view them after 5 years I believe.
I haven't been to a school that *doesn't* do teacher evaluations. I'm always honest but mature and try to be as constructive as I can be. I don't think they always make a difference (how many of us have had that terrible professor who has been there for years and has been getting bad evaluations for years?) but sometimes they do.
With safety concerns though, I would definitely speak to someone and not leave it to the evaluation.
I and another student went today after the final and spoke to the lead coordinator for the course and told her of our concerns. We were very specific about the incidents we were concerned about.
I and another student went today after the final and spoke to the lead coordinator for the course and told her of our concerns. We were very specific about the incidents we were concerned about.
Good for you. I know you were nervous about that but it was the right thing to do.
My school does them online. All is completely anonymous. I've written very good evals for most of my faculty, but did write evals for one Prof. that, while I was sure to mention this Prof's positive traits, were overwhelmingly negative evals. I was specific, objective and professional, but the facts were what they were.
In my school the evals are taken seriously by the administration.
I can't imagine that the evals at my school are taken seriously. There is one teacher that NOT ONE classmate of mine has anything good to say about. We were discussing her with our current clincal instructor and she said that she has never heard one positive thing about her. She is not unsafe, but I would definitely call her unprofessional. Rude comments to students, cell phone out constantly, I was actually afraid to ask questions because if she was in a bad mood... forget it. She made me feel like the stupidest person alive. At my final clinical evaluation she had nothing but glowing things to say about me and I was blown away. I had never gotten one positive comment from her and was expecting her to rip me a new one and basically call me an idiot.
melmarie23, MSN, RN
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our department types them up after we submit them. However, they don't dispose of the originals and the instructor can view them after 5 years I believe.