Yes, but still. Students are in a disadvantaged position of power. Thus there must be reassurances that there not going to be retaliations to their honest and justified comments. Breaking this trust is what worries me. I see your point, do you see mine?
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Replying to @twitemp1 @jdavidjentsch and
Fair enough. Then allow anonymous comments but if found to be abusive they are un-anonymised by a 3rd party and the students are told this explicitly. However, you can't address what I said above either way: anonymised comments can still bear the features of the writer.
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In many ways, I might know who left it regardless. Or worse yet, I might have 3 people who fit the bill and retaliate against all 3. It's very tricky.
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Replying to @o_guest @jdavidjentsch and
Yes, it is very tricky! That was my whole point
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Replying to @twitemp1 @jdavidjentsch and
Also, to be fair, students raise all their concerns in class, and especially to the TAing PhD students, if in any way interactive like a practical class or one with seminars, almost always and without exception in my experience. So again you know who is complaining about what.
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Obvi, my experiences and not universal and teaching/TAing 6 courses a year for 4 years at BBK is again not a universal experience, but I genuinely do not believe there is such a thing as anonymous when it's students you spend hours with. You just know who writes what if you care.
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And even if you don't know who writes what, the way people write can give things away about their personality or minority (or otherwise) status. Anonymity in these contexts to me at least seems like a fig leaf. You cannot really appeal to it.
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To truly protect students you must actually have proper rules and training in place not just say "oh hey it's anonymised so it's unbiased".
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Replying to @o_guest @jdavidjentsch and
That is absolutely true! Besides, they are bloody adults so perhaps we should not be that much concerned with anonymity but the fairness.
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It seems entirely reasonable to say to Univ students: "We want to hear your constructive feedback to improve teaching. We don't want to hear your nonsense and bigotry."
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The sad truth is sometimes uncovering their propensity to write this stuff is the only way their attitude and behavioural issues get addressed.
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