By Sarah Boswell, Ball State Daily News
The university wants students to fill out online course evaluations. So much, in fact, that those who participate will be entered in a drawing for one of six iPad2s, according to an email sent from the provost’s office on Friday. “Why not reward students for what we would like them to do?” Associate Provost Marilyn Buck said. As of Friday, only 28 percent of students had filled them out. The evaluations help professors improve their curriculum and style of teaching. But they can also help determine promotion and tenure decisions, Buck said. The response rate was about 80 percent in 2009 when the university still used a paper system. James Jones, director of Research and Academic Effectiveness, said that basically reflected the number of students in class on the day the surveys were given.
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