Undergraduate students were asked to describe faculty members to whom they had given their highest and lowest evaluations. Highest rated faculty were described in terms of positive personal/motivational and interpersonal characteristics. Lowest rated faculty were described in terms of classroom behavior. Characteristics of highest evaluated faculty, it is suggested, are not bipolar opposites of characteristics of lowest evaluated faculty.
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