Evaluation thingies

Un-Big · 31-08-2005 4:00pm #1

I'm not sure if this is a common occurance or whatever but I got that Class Evaluation thing today, and I laughed. Alot. I'd be willing to bet alot of money that it's generic. Which I also find hilarious for no particular reason. Seriously though: "Your interest in and enthusiasm for the subject seemed to have encouraged other class members. You were a key contributor in the class". I listened to music and slept, ALL the time! Yup, I guess that's dedication for ya. Did anyone in my class get theirs with those lines in it?

Also, the Instrucrtors Signature says: PP Cfitzgerald (Least thats what it looks like). Our instructors name was Jun Ni.... somethink be out of place here O.o

31-08-2005 4:04pm

got mine today too. First 2 paragraphs completely Generic, last one was nice though. it'll look well stapled to my CV.

Karlusss · 31-08-2005 4:37pm

Yeah the first half's for your ma I think. I was happy, it seemed like at least some effort went in.

Who's this Fitzgerald, by the way?

31-08-2005 4:39pm

Eleanor - it's the Academic Co-ordinator, all my others have Colm O'Reilly on them

Piste · 31-08-2005 4:42pm

PP is some Latin thingy I think but loosly translated it means ''in place of'' and C Fitzgerald is Catriona's signature so she obviously signed in place of the instructors. Alot of mine was generic but a good bit of it was personal and well thought. In the words of my dear mother: ''He wrote it in legalese!''

31-08-2005 4:50pm

oops, my bad

Raphael · 31-08-2005 4:51pm

2 paragraphs of boilerplate explaining the course, 2 personalised ones. Last letter from Ctyi

Liquorice · 31-08-2005 5:45pm

A few paragraphs going over what we did followed by another paragraph, the sincerity of which I'm not able to gauge..

Hugh Hefner · 31-08-2005 5:46pm

Raphael wrote:

2 paragraphs of boilerplate explaining the course, 2 personalised ones.

Pretty much the same for me.

invisibleghost · 31-08-2005 6:24pm

At the bit where it says: Instructor's Signature, was anyone else's NOT signed by their instructor? :rolleyes:

meeka · 31-08-2005 7:06pm

I don't think anyone's was, heh.

carlowboy · 31-08-2005 7:11pm

I don't know about generic comments at the end. I got a pretty stinging one two years ago and in the parent teacher meeting thing. So you must've done well or my instructor was refreshingly honest at the time

Mocha One Sugar · 31-08-2005 7:41pm

Well i don't feel loved - i didn't get mine!
C'mon, Inverin ain't THAT far out!!
If it doesn't come tomorrow i shall be sad...
Argh, guys i just started back at school today and OMG i swear to f*ck if i hear the words "Teastas Sóisireach" (Junior Cert in Irish cos my school's all-Irish) one more time i shall kill somebody!
there is gonna be a hell of a lot of dead bodies come next June!!
**frustrated/murderous noises**

ILikeCheese · 31-08-2005 7:46pm

My instructor wrote me a heartfelt sonnet and promised that his love for me would never die.

Shiney · 31-08-2005 8:07pm

i live in dublin but i haven't got it yet

jono087 · 31-08-2005 8:09pm

ILikeCheese wrote:

My instructor wrote me a heartfelt sonnet and promised that his love for me would never die.

is that allowed??

Chris IS Cool · 31-08-2005 8:41pm

carlowboy wrote:

I don't know about generic comments at the end. I got a pretty stinging one two years ago and in the parent teacher meeting thing. So you must've done well or my instructor was refreshingly honest at the time

I didn't know of anyone who ever got a bad report before... I thought everyone just got told they were amazing... And apparently I bring out the best in people, but I've no idea how...

Un-Big · 31-08-2005 9:14pm

Hmmm... I guess Elenor signing mine would suggest that our teacher couldnt write them for some reason... either way, that evaluation was DEFINATELY not personalised. Unless our instructor had mental problems O.o. Yeah I didn't actually make it clear that it was the PERSONAL evaluation part of mine that was generic.

And Fiodhna, why do you get younger every time I find out your age!?

Zounds · 31-08-2005 9:41pm

I've had two instructors admit that for some students they've had to write generic stuff (though possibly in jest) but most people I imagine get actual evaluations. Mine have always seemed personalised.

As for them not being signed by the instructor I'd imagine that it's because by the time they were printed the instructors had all gone back to wherever it is they go back to and so the office staff signed them.

Spraypaint · 31-08-2005 9:55pm

Mine was personalised but also appropriately, well censored. All positive and generally nice and obviously thought out well by either my instructor or TA who could have been less kind than they were but decided to be really sound and fair.
Thanks Sarah and Kerri

Crash · 31-08-2005 11:10pm

From my rememberance of them being written - they're personalised. generally its just outlining the course and then other bits on you yourself, which are personalised always

as for Caitriona signing em, i'd say all of them say that - most of the instructors wouldnt have gotten the chance before they left to sign them as they wouldnt have been printed up. CFitzgerald is Caitriona Fitzgerald.

Dementia · 31-08-2005 11:26pm

Neil, did we get evaluations in our day? oh and by our day I mean my day :rolleyes: 1998-2001, or is that something that started in 2002?

Raphael · 01-09-2005 7:02am

I have an evaluation from CA in 2001, so they did have them back then.

Acid_Violet · 01-09-2005 3:20pm

Did anyone else get an International Relations one this year or before. I think he just bull-****s from Peter Lydon's guide to life which has self-styled him to this fine image of perfection*sarcasm for any-one who doesn't know him*

Crash · 01-09-2005 4:19pm

2001 was my first year - and i think i still have mine knocking about somewhere - just cus you're ancient Ciara :P

Un-Big · 01-09-2005 7:23pm

Ha! I knewd it! Both Michael's and Dylan's 'personal' evaluations were the exact same as mine. Every bit completely generic. That's hilarious..... *larf*

Dearv · 01-09-2005 7:57pm

Yup! theres been evaluations since the start of cty - ur just gettin too old to remember!!! :rolleyes:

Imagine if there was Ra evaluations though

oh the fun we'd have writin those!!!!

Pyschopath666 · 01-09-2005 8:02pm

Mine was reasonably well personalised so far as to thank me for the present of Fredrick (my red spade which in co-indence is the Globtropian Spade Of POWER)

Its a philosophy thing

~Pierce

Piste · 01-09-2005 8:08pm

Globtrob you say?

claire h · 01-09-2005 8:36pm

Dearv wrote:

Yup! theres been evaluations since the start of cty - ur just gettin too old to remember!!! :rolleyes:

I have an evaluation from one of the Saturday courses from 1996 lying around somewhere.... scary.

Flashling · 01-09-2005 8:47pm

I remember the Globtrob thing! Well, now it doesn't seem as spontanious and cool. Mine was personalised all the way through, and oddly kind....

Mocha One Sugar · 01-09-2005 8:48pm

Yay i gots it in the post today!!
Eoin is such a funny guy, he called me "intelligent"!!!
Now that's just hilarious!
*laugh attack*

Mocha One Sugar · 01-09-2005 8:55pm

Un-Big wrote:

And Fiodhna, why do you get younger every time I find out your age!?

um.... i dunno?! How come you get older????

btw, who are you?!?

Jade Chihuahua · 01-09-2005 9:50pm

Mine was pretty well personalised, although seeing as how it's a writing course, the teacher would have to write it well.

Spec Fic Wri!

Un-Big · 02-09-2005 12:53pm

Mocha One Sugar wrote:

um.... i dunno?! How come you get older????
btw, who are you?!?

I'm Jean, the little one. Remember I said I was gonna look for you to pretend to be my sister in Blanch so I could get my ear pierced?

Ok at first I thought you were a nevermore, so a year older than me, then I found out you werent, so I figured you were the same age as me, and now you say you're in 3rd year (Unless I'm silly) so that would make you a year younger than me. It's very confuzzling =\

Undergod · 02-09-2005 7:50pm

In my memory there are always two paragraphs which aren't personalised and one which is. And it's never signed by the actual teacher, in the past it was always Colm. I got mine yesterday.

Un-Big · 02-09-2005 8:15pm

Yeah, and I bet the last paragraph started with the lines "Your relationships witht he class were very positive. Your interest in and enthusiasm for the subject seemed to have encouraged other class members.", didn't it Bill? Come to think of it thats pretty accurate in your case but still...

Piste · 02-09-2005 10:05pm

shuddupshuddupshuddupshuddup

/me puts hands over ears

Mocha One Sugar · 02-09-2005 10:40pm

Piste wrote:

shuddupshuddupshuddupshuddup

/me puts hands over ears

exactly!! my name was mentioned throughout and all my "unique" characteristics were pointed out so somehow, Liz, i think us Legal Studiers are superdeedooper because we got actual individual evaluations from Eoin and Gillian! *excitement*

Jim_Are_Great · 02-09-2005 10:41pm

Q: "What did the watermelon say to the giraffe?"

A: "Dale, I'm going to jail"

elephamt king · 03-09-2005 12:28am

Jim_Are_Great wrote:

Q: "What did the watermelon say to the giraffe?"

A: "Dale, I'm going to jail"

oh, i get it.
*walks away*

Shellie13 · 03-09-2005 11:46am

Pyschopath666 wrote:

Mine was reasonably well personalised so far as to thank me for the present of Fredrick (my red spade which in co-indence is the Globtropian Spade Of POWER)

Its a philosophy thing

Ye Fiachra actually seemed to put some effort into them-ledgendary instructor!!! Mine was great.. though he seemed to think i talked alot... Wonder where he got that impression...

mentalimplosion · 03-09-2005 8:37pm

he wrote that my wardrobe brought colour to the class

03-09-2005 8:41pm

ME TOO!
they're not personalised at all!!

(note this is a joke - my wardrobe had no affect on the class)

Mocha One Sugar · 03-09-2005 9:13pm

i got the joke Emmet, it's ok!

LiamD · 03-09-2005 10:52pm

Shellie13 wrote:

Ye Fiachra actually seemed to put some effort into them-ledgendary instructor!!! Mine was great.. though he seemed to think i talked alot... Wonder where he got that impression...

wonder indeed...

:rolleyes:

Jim_Are_Great · 04-09-2005 9:45pm

What did the worm say to the army?

Get Shootin'

Andrew 83 · 05-09-2005 11:43am

The evaluations have to all be given in on disk at the end of the session so it makes sense that they'd then be signed by someone in the office. As for the personalisation issue - I've been a TA for three sessions and only seen all the evaluations for one (session 2 this year) and each was personalised at least to an extent, there's stuff specific to each of you in all of them.

05-09-2005 4:12pm

ah don't be such a payne!

TalkISCheap · 07-09-2005 7:37pm

i'm sure that there's a joke about glass there if you look hard enough...

07-09-2005 8:46pm

no, it's his surname, tough luck Cathal, sheesh talk about ruining a bad joke

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