PickaProf Lets Profs Evaluate Comments From Students

  • By Paul McCloskey
  • 03/06/07
A social website that helps students evaluate prospective professors will now let professors express their opinions about the reviews. With the service, pickaprof.com, professors are given the same guidelines that are applied to student reviews, including no personal attacks, inappropriate language, or references to other professors.
 
Pickaprof first made its name by posting the grading histories of individual professors on the site. Now the tool will be  combined with a new suite of "Professor Support Services" to allow professors to upload course descriptions, student expectations, and a personal biography.

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Paul McCloskey is contributing editor of Syllabus.

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