We initiated the idea for this resource because we believed that it was something that students like ourselves would find useful to have at our disposal. To implement the information resource we would simply need to create a website that had a focus on retaining and sorting information from students and teachers.
I began my research by finding opinions of the sites that we consider to be comparable to ours. First, in searching for Rate My Professor through EBSCO and Academic OneFile it was clear to see the downfalls of the Rate My Professor system. These were rooted into the grading criteria and were that way because of many facets relating to the students’ intent to find the easiest class. As a result it became tantamount to have the right grading criteria for generating useable information on our resource. Another idea that was sparked because of this was the concept of weighing the grades given to students by their GPA. This would give prospective students an opinion that was geared towards a focus on the coursework itself and a balanced evaluation of the professor rather than an opinion that was geared toward getting the easiest possible grade.
