On request I will be happy to send you a hard copy of the full article. Students should evaluate the text for readability, problems, comments on instructor's availability, room accommodations, what was helpful, what was not helpful, etc. Alternatively, I think that students should be required t o sign their name on a tear-away part of the form. Those evaluations without signatures would not be counted. There is a wonderful correlation in my classes, the better the grade the student is getting the better the evaluation.
Many students do take the evaluations seriously but it's the crackpots that ruin ones week.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. We are essentially being told that if there is a gender bias in evaluations it is up to us to fix it, rather than having this bias taken into consideration when a persons' promotion, tenure or retention is at stake. Prof. X really needs to make herself uglier. I am so overcome with desire that I cannot learn from her. I understand the need for confidentiality in regard to students being able to speak freely without fear of retaliation, but there should also be some accountability to what they right.