The current system, where the teacher determines who to give an
evaluation to, has serious problems. In large part, it has exactly the
problems of pass/fail systems, because that is what it has, in large
part, become.  One, students engage in too many activities that are
not important to their personal education. Two, tension is created
where there need be none. Students and professors shouldn't have to
worry about whether a set of learning activites counts towards a
student's div 2s or whatever. That's up to the div 2 committee, which
reads the evaluations. So, I say that every student who wants an
evaluation should gt one. If the only thing a faculty can say is
"Chris wrote one submarginal paper and attended a few classes" then
that should be the evaluation. The idea of Passes or not is really not
helping anybody's education. The alternative I am proposing is that
the prof give an evaluation to every student who submits a
self-evaluation and any other students deemed appropriate. The prof
should evaluate at least every thing in the self-eval, and anything
else deemed appropriate, even if this means saying "Student did not do
any of what student claimed".  Jan 15 95