Monday, May 01, 2006

Contrasts Implications of Theory

Montana Tech has a bubble-sheet-type survey for course evaluations. There's a list of forty-one things that a professor may or may not do, and you fill in one bubble on a spectrum of "Does poorly" to "Does very well". One of the forty-one evaluations are: The professor "contrasts implications of theory".

In the several years that Montana Tech has implemented this evaluation system, I've never, ever been able to understand WTF "contrasts implications of theory" means and how that would apply to a professor. As far as buzz-speak goes, it's worse than "synergy".

If someone who is more enlightened than myself can figure this out, please let me know.

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