Evaluations redux:

This is another evaluation of me, although it's from a class where I was a student (Econ 203):

How productive was class discussion?
Not at all. One student would ask stupid questions every so often that would lead us off topic for 30 minutes at a time. Other than that, no one ever really talked.[guilty as charged-- ed.]

Is there any topic in this course you wished you had had previous background in?
-Belgian

Self-evaluation:

My father once warnedme not to pay any heed to good evaluations unless you were willing to pay equal heed to the bad ones. All the same, course evaluations are out (they can be accessed only off of the U of C or a proxy server), including the class I TA'ed for. Though I'm trying not to worry too much about the approval of a bunch of first-year students, in the interests of full disclosure, here is what they had to say:

TA was very good at clarifying: 2
TA was able to answer all my questions
TA was accessible and helpful: 13
Grading was tough[I wish-- ed.]
TA wasnt effective, couldnt understand him [I have my guess as to who this was-- ed.]
Would have liked the homework to be graded differently, he never showed how to correct it[This criticism is definitely fair-- ed.]