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I've always taken my evaluations seriously (the ones that I have written). I agree that the generic response bubbles can be a bit long and when students look at a list of 20+ bubbles, they are sometimes just going to start filling them in without looking. I think that ideally the majority of this stuff should be done through comments.


Not really sure if angry students will write negative stuff because of their grade. However, if this is a suspected problem, possibly consider moving the evaluations to the middle of the semester instead of towards the end. Students will already have formed an impression of their professor and their grade will still be much more in the air.

Also consider not forcing students to fill these out at the end of class. My University does them online and are optional. I would suspect that this improves the quality of responses.