Lyle admitted that students had scant desire to complete SmurFFs. They considered it a useless effort since little or no attention had been paid in the past to their comments.
"To force compliance," he explained, "students were told that unless their name had been checked off on a list in the secretaries' office, they could not receive their grade for the course from the dean's office. Most students bring in completed evaluation forms, place them in the box provided and check off their names. Some merely come in and check off their names, eschewing the forms," he finally admitted with obvious reluctance.
This certainly puts a different light on things, Jane noted as she jotted down the information being squeezed out of Lyle by Diana. She carefully registered in neat script:
1. That the blank SmurFFs were left out in the open for days,
sometimes weeks so any body could have had access to them
2. That the completed SmurFFs left in the box, supposedly by
radiology students, were separated and given to each instructor;
the course critiques went to Ian and Randy
3. No tabulation of the number of critiques was carried out
4. Anyone could come in (etc.)
5. Since the critique form (etc.)
6. Most of the submitted critiques were not dated
The accused was left out of course planning meetings when Ian and Randy met with Lyle, contrary to what he had just told the committee.