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Evaluations help show teachers’ effectiveness
By KATHY O’CONNELL
Battalion StafT
Cutting short a class lecture to fill out a teacher
valuation may make students happy, but many
lon’t know the importance of the evaluations.
In many of the Texas A&M colleges, students
ue asked to fill out questionnaires rating the
instructors’ teaching ability and course material.
However, it is left up to the different colleges and
jepartrnents to determine the method of evalua
tion.
Dr. William Muse, dean of the College of
Business Administration, said that at the end of
;ach semester every class fills out questionnaires
which the college purchases from the Education
al Testing Service. Muse said they use this ques
tionnaire as it s the most widely used on a nation
al basis.
He said the data is collected from students and
analyzed through a computer program. At the
end of the semester, he said, a copy of the analy
sis is sent to the professor, the department head
and the dean of that college.
The evaluation is used to determine salary
increases, promotion and tenure, if the professor
is on a tenure track.
Muse also said the department heads meet
with each professor to discuss the evaluation and
set goals and objectives for the coming year. He
said if the data shows there is a problem in the
classroom, then those problems will be discussed
with the instructor.
Dr. Earl F. Cook, dean of the College of
Geosciences, said there is a student council with
in that college that administers an evaluation to
students. This evaluation “rates the undergradu
ate program for the College of Geosciences.”
He said the questionnaire asks questions such
as: “What courses did you find useful?"; “What
required courses did not do any good?“; and
“Was the sequence of courses useful?”
Cook said, “The answers to these questions
from juniors and seniors really come in handy
because sophomores haven’t had a chance to take
classes in a sequence.”
Cook also said the professors in the different
geoscience departments are “required to admi
nister a questionnaire to the students.” He said
this evaluation is “an attempt to find out how we
(professors) did in the class.”
Dr. Dean Corrigan, dean of the College of
Education, said each department in that college
handles the student evaluations differently.
The department of educational curriculum
and instruction requires instructors to adminis
ter a questionnaire to the students at the end of
the semester, said Dr. David David, department
head.
He said a student is assigned to pick up the
completed forms and turn them in to the depart
ment head. David said the questionnaire they
use is a University form; however, he’s not sure if
the questions are prepared by a University com
mittee.
David said once the questionnaires are com
pleted, he would meet with the professor “if
there is a need to meet with him.”
“Usually I pass them back without comment or
sometimes I send a note,” he said. “This note is
usually one of praise. ”
David said results of the questionnaire are one
part in determining whether a teacher warrants a
merit raise. “The basis of determining merit is a
very broad basis,” he said, “and is not solely
based on the questionnaire. ”
angers learn leadership from rigorous field training
By BELINDA McCOY
BattalionStaff
“Playing Army” in Rudder’s
dangers pays off for those with
imbitions of holding leadership
ositions or attending the United
States Army Infantry Ranger
Ichool, the Ranger’s commanding
fficer said.
Rudder’s Rangers is the largest
ipecial group within Texas A&M
hiversity’s Corps of Cadets, said
lommanding Officer Calvin
eyer. The purpose of the group
to provide leadership training
rough small unit tactics and
tdventure-type field training.
The group participates in pat-
oiling outings, marches, and
and-to-hand combat practices.
The organization is designed to
irepare its members for the
Lrmy’s Ranger, Airborne, Air
ssault courses, and Summer
personnel participate.
Approximately 50 ROTC
Cadets from all ROTC universities
and colleges across the nation are
integrated into a regular Ranger
class and participate in the train
ing each year. Last year 55 cadets
were allowed to start the course,
and 30 completed the course.
Texas A&M sent two cadets,
Meyer and Sam Hawes, also a
Rudder’s Ranger. Both Meyer and
Hawes completed the training,
“which says a lot for what we (Rud
der’s Rangers) do,” Meyer said.
The training includes three
phases, each of which last three
weeks, and averages 19 hours of
training each day. Two weeks of
pre-training is conducted for the
cadets.
“They say if you put the hours
we put in (at Ranger school) on a
40-hour work week, it would take
six months to complete,” Meyer
said. “I can remember looking
down at my watch and it being 1
o’clock in the morning, and we
were still in class.”
The first phase of the training is
conducted at Ft. Benning, Geor
gia, and includes physical fitness
tests, obstacle courses, and intro
ductions to patrolling techniques,
demolitions, hand-to-hand com
bat, land navigation, weapons,
artillery fire and air assault.
“We got to play around with
plastic explosives,” Meyer said,
laughing.
The second phase, the moun
tain phase, takes place near
Dahlonega, Georgia, and includes
introduction to mountain climb
ing, river crossing, and rapelling
techniques (descending cliffs and
buildings on a rope).
The third phase, in the swamps
of Florida, includes a parachute
jump, swamp patrolling, river and
stream crossing, small boat opera
tions, survival and helicopter
rapelling techniques. The phase
ends with a 12-day continuous
patrol.
This summer Texas A&M will
send eight cadets to Ranger
school. Never before has Texas
A&M sent that many cadets,
Meyer said.
Also, “It’s the first time anyone
from Texas A&M has heard of any
school sending that many,” he
said.
Any Corps member may join
Rudder’s Rangers, Meyer said,
but not everyone may wear the
special unit insignia.
Senior advisers in Rudder’s
Rangers wear black berrets with
their fatigues, or with Class A uni
forms worn to a Ranger function.
Rangers who have completed
Ranger school wear a special black
and gold patch — a tab — that says
“Ranger” on it.
A special triangle-shaped pin
with the letters A-T-M on it is
worn by members who have pas
sed the old Army physical training
test, participate in field training
and classroom activities, and re
ceive a satisfactory rating in
leadership positions held during
field training exercises as deter
mined by the commander and
officers of the company.
Originally, only Corps mem
bers who were in the Army outfits
could join the organization.
However, in recent years, mem
bers of Air Force outfits and Navy-
Marine outfits have joined.
amp.
Rudder’s Rangers were named
memory of James Earl Rudder;
rmer president of Texas A&M
ind former commanding officer of
he 2nd Ranger Battalion in World
II. The group was formed in
,968 and has grown to 155 mem-
ters this year. Twelve of those
nembers are seniors, and three
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Rudder’s Rangers is roughly
equivalent to the Army’s special
Ranger outfit, Meyer said. The
rmy conducts an Infantry Ranger
:hooI in which Army and Marine
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“Our goal is to get on the road,”
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Next month the band will begin
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al music. They plan to send the
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The music they have written is
modeled after groups such as
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Brothers, which featured double
lead guitars. Myatt said they make
their music “not too hard or com
plicated, just a solid beat and then
we put the twin guitars on top.”
Another feature of the band is a
colored light show and fogged
floor which is rare among begin
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sey, who has a degree in computer
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The newest addition to the
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The band also has something
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“He is really good,” Dossey
said. Satio does not usually prac
tice with the group because of his
busy schedule and he already
knows his parts.
Band members in addition to
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drums; Myatt — lead guitar, bass
and vocals; Satio — saxophone,
flute, recorder and percussions;
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Pat Benatar, Z-Z Top, Journey,
Thin Lizzy, AC DC, The Cars and
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