THOUGHTS ON TEACHING EVALUATIONS: I read mine carefully — however the numerical, fill-in-the-bubbles forms that the University uses are largely useless. I find the fill-in-the-blanks handwritten ones (which only I see) quite helpful, as they often contain specific suggestions from students. The most amusing thing about the numerical forms was that the one question with a single clear, objective answer — the number of classes cancelled during the semester — always produced a spread of responses, with a significant number of students choosing each possible choice. (They’ve since removed that one). Still, it was a thirteenth-chime-of-the-clock sort of thing: Not only wrong in itself, but calling into question everything else from the same source.