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4jLTha D-'!V Tar Heel Thursday. April 28. cessing student evaluation forms varies By AMY McRARY Staff Writer Several of the larger UNC departments u student evaluation forms to improve course format or the professor's teaching Performance, but each department has its system of processing the forms. -3 : In the history department, each faculty member is required to keep forms from at least one course each year. He then must submit one set of these forms to George V. Taylor, chairperson of the ..history department, any time there is a question about the member's teaching performance, salarv or promotion. p3 LUNCH BUCK -it Am mm W3 C5Vfc Mr w coupon ONE 1 1 1 1 i vi. 1 ri ?sJ I IflV 1977 Evaluation forms also are used by the history department when a professor is being reviewed for tenure, Taylor said. Every member of the tenure committee is allowed to read the forms before making a decision. "We in history take these forms very seriously because we place a lot of emphasis on the quality of teaching," Taylor said. The UNC School of Business uses a computer to analyze the evaluation forms for all classes, said Douglas A. Elvers, an associate business professor. Elvers said he knows of no other department that uses computer analysis for these forms. The statistical results of the analysis are I I l l I 1 l l l I l l l l l l LUNCH BUCK INTItkIS CAMS COUPON LUNCHEON SFXclAL COUPON Dcef MAHY ST. Your Member F D t C "Ml reservetVj 1 given to both the faculty member and his area coordinator, who is also head of the division the faculty member teaches, in. Another form is added to the department's files. The coordinator may direct the teacher to improve or to maintain his present teaching performance. Elvers said. The business school also uses the results of the evaluation forms when a faculty member lis considered for reappointment or tenure, he said. "There should be a number of questions that fit every course, and then the teacher should have his own questions for his particular class," Elvers said. He said he believes use of this second set of questions would help each teacher see how well he is teaching a particular course. Trivia fanatics By STEVE HUETTEL Staff Writer Trailing by more than 150 points in the fourth quarter, the Academic Anomalies obviously were shaken and not playing their game. "Toss-up," the moderator announced. "If the author of The Godfather. An Anomalie member buzzed in. "Oh...uh, Mario. . .AndrettiT Things got no better for the Anomalies as they dropped the Tar Heel College Bowl match to the Contingent Remainderman Boosters Club, 325 to 140, and were eliminated from the tournament. The Contingent Remainderman Boosters Club will take on the two undefeated tournament teams, Samoa Blue and Gus Zernial's New All- mm km poj am U 111 IJjLI uUcsJU QlicpJU Un The Wachovia Grad Plan gives you a package of all theBanihg services you'll need, including: A Simple Interest Loan for a car or any major purchase. A Wachovia Free Way Account for no-service-charge checking. A Wachovia Ready . ReservAccount. It backs ' up your checking account L I,,, - , with a reserve of cash. A Master Charge Card. A Wachovia Banking Carcf (with Check Guarantee) that can be used at Teller II. t own Wachovia Personal Banker Newcomer information and relocation assistance: How do you get it? Simple. If you're getting your degree this year, have accepted a full-time job with a salary of at least $7200, and are going to live or work in a North Carolina community, you may already qualify. So drop by your nearest Wachovia office and ask a Wachovia Personal Banker about the Grad Plan. Do it this week, and get a sound start on your financial future. In the English department, evaluation forms are available for both the department head and the individual faculty member after final grades are posted, chairperson William R. Harmon said. Discussion based on the forms is designed to improve the course itself, rather than the faculty member's teaching methods, he said. "Because 1 believe that teachers do not perform but do their work, the forms are used to define and discuss the course," Harmon said. The evaluation forms help contribute to the future format of the professor's course, he said. The psychology department leaves any course changes based on evaluation forms up to the individual professor, psychology cnairperson John H. Schopler said. enter College Stars, in Room 217 of the Carolina Union for the championship of the 74-team, double-elimination tournament, sponsored by the Carolina Union Recreation Committee. "There were a lot of cutesy questions tonight," said Remainderman Ken Ledford. "You have to learn how. to handle those not jump to quick before you get the question." The College Bowl format this year is new, but it is essentially an extension of the Quiz Bowl, which thrived on campus for years before being discontinued last year, according to Michael Cannon, Recreation Committee chairperson. Quiz Bowl questions were prepared by those running the tournament, but the College Bowl toss-ups and bonuses are bought from College Bowl Inc., a firm which sets up tournaments t Pe!! WUNG-TV to WUNCVrV will broadcast a telethon Sunday from 10p.m. until midnight to meet the rising cost, of television production. Lect in conjunction with a live show from Boston. The show win The two-hocr telethon JZ2ZE& " h W VNC" f' m follow the last ode of ff'. Led .ution. .round the nat.cn wrtl receive rife four years, and will be a tribute 10 me pi ufti five-minute time slots to ZStSBS tyear Lance Drier, director "We need $100,00 to contm, t cm v onlirid other factors have raised the cost 0 of planning and administration f" ' in some areas, he said, television broadcasting by PJ" f been the increase in the price of national programming," " "The biggest JXtSi 2St hours of national programming, which would Ozier said. "In 1974 a weekly Pc& uLhineionek in Review and Sounds tage, cost $37,000 include such programs as Sesame Street, Wgf m" The same amount of pr W??! f emulation and the Corporation for Public "The main reason for thw liioti of these programs but have now reduced Broadcasting once helped underwn e g-gStf assumed more of the costs of Jg that support to zero. They feel it is time that "a"" ncse programs, which we are trying to do in production costs. It? 1974," Ozier said. - -ROBERT THOMASfJN Bowl tournament finals modeled after the General Electric College Bowl television program. 0 -.-'j - "The Quiz Bowl questions were better," Cannon said. "Now it's not super-intellect, as much as quick thinking and knowledge of trivia." Some contestents this year have participated in previous UNC Quiz Bowls and also in high school quiz tournaments. Members of the Contingent Remainderman team agreed that preparation for the matches was not possible. "Quickness is the key,' because you either know the stuff or you don't," said member Mike Jones. He explained that ideally a team should consist of people from different fields, such as science, math, language, history or English. But this Vi: broadcast telethon strategy was not so important in the tournament thisyear.hcsaid. .. ?t We , don't ; "have anybody in math or chemistry this thing is trivia junk and speed," he said: '"You can go far here with a little general knowledge." ' " But what could drive someone to have such an infatuation with trivia? "Oh, we do it for fun," said Remainderman Ray Owen. "It's better than sex actually and better than beer. . .well, maybe not better than beer." Tar Heel Classifieds Cost Only $1.50 , 0 . .-J-.
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