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Slides from an active learning workshop session on low course ratings by Prof. Nancy Kane. Most instructors receive some negative comments from students on their course evaluations. One option is to dismiss them as outliers or in conflict with positive comments, and sometimes that is appropriate. Often, however, negative evaluations represent good opportunities for reconsidering how a course is positioned, what it is trying to achieve, and/or how it is taught. Dr. Kane describes common themes found in negative course evaluations at Harvard Chan and discusses ways of addressing them.