E-Valuating Learning:<i>Rate My Professors</i>and Public Rhetorics of Pedagogy

Rhetoric Review Jun 2008

E-Valuating Learning:<i>Rate My Professors</i>and Public Rhetorics of Pedagogy

Kelly Ritter University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Abstract

The Rate My Professors (RMP) online student discourse community shapes and defines current public rhetorics of pedagogy. RMP is a cultural phenomenon indicative of a larger movement in extra-institutional discourse toward ranking and assessing people and products. More important than the postings on RMP, however, or their measurable accuracy, is how RMP reflects the increasingly convergent interests of consumer culture and academic culture, shaping the ways that pedagogy is valued and assessed by students within the public domain. Faculty therefore must consider RMP's effect on public discourse about pedagogy in order to help students understand evaluation as a tool for civic exchange.

Journal: Rhetoric Review
Published: 2008-06-16
DOI: 10.1080/07350190802126177
Open Access: Closed
Topics: public rhetoric

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