Technical b r Report - International Military Testing Association

Subordinate rating% of a sort, have recently received an upsurge
in use in academia. Students’ evaluations of teachers or professors
are no longer an uncommon practice and at least one firm, the Apex
Corporation, uses subordinate ratings. The main resistance to their use
seems to be based on possible misccaccptfons about what the subordinates
would actually be racing. If this is so, what information could be
generated to correct these possibie misconceptions? k’ould.it be necessary
to have all supervisors do studies in which they gathered critical incidents’?
With out recent renewed attention to the “people” aqect of organizations,
subordinate ratings may be mortl important and possible now than ever before.
Since our critical incidc\n: studies argue strongly against the
xeasons usually given for not halving subk>rdinate ratings, the question
should again be asked: SuiZrdituttc Katinrrs: Lay Sot?
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