Through our editorial and revision processes, we eliminate issues that prove to be uninteresting or not easily understood by the students. We actively solicit reactions from instructors for this purpose. The issues that are selected are chosen for their broad applicability. Even students simply fulfilling a requirement in a discipline to which they may have no further exposure will have formed opinions on many of these issues. In addition to the concern for maintaining an ordered system in the classroom, there is the problem of evaluation.
Subjectivity is an issue that has long plagued educators.
On this site, we provide a variety of evaluation techniques and materials. Some are simple report forms to be filled in by the students and returned to the instructor or a teaching assistant. Others are more complex and are for use in evaluating the contribution and performance of members of the class during formal debate sessions. These include role-playing suggestions, numerical ratings for coherence of thought and presentation, and evaluation forms for use by the instructor and class members. Opinions, Conflict, and Truth.